Back into Spain

Dinner yum yum yum

Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Filled with crazy street performers. Entertaining strip of road to walk down.

Sagrada Familia. Building started around 1882 and is still being completed. Not sure if it was stunning or just ugly but either way it was the most amazing building Ive ever seen.

Beautiful Alcazar, was like a fairytale castle. In Segovia where there was also a aqueduct and a cathedral dating from 1525.

How Paul enjoys the beach.........very sun-smart.

More food

In Madrid

Cathedral in Toledo, work began in 1226. We had a great time exploring this town. Almost bought a fancy chess set but the lady dropped it on the ground... never mind saved us a bit of money!

We were searching for the parque nacional de donana and stumbled upon this town. As you can see all of the road were sand, it felt like we had gone back in time.

Part of the parque nacional de donana. One of Europe's greatest wetlands.

Portugal

It seems as if we were in Portugal years ago now. Funny to think that only a month or so has gone past. We finally have a campsite where the Internet is working well so hopefully we will manage to get some photos up. Here are a selection from Portugal...

A very Beautiful beach. They have boardwalks along the whole beach with cafes so you can sit and eat while enjoying the sunshine.

We went on a sunset boat trip.

Paul Loved the portugeese custard tarts. They were amazing but we ate way too many of them.

We went to one of the worlds largest aquariums. Paul couldn't get over the sunfish.

Drying fish on the beach

Portugal fun....

So I had bigger post put together but blogger closed me out and i lost it.

So here is Orbidos and the Bone Chapel (made from 1500 monks)

More Soon :)

France to Spain

This blog will be a lil backwards.......the photos are in the wrong order but you get the idea..

Our stop for lunch. At the moment we are on our way to Rias Baixas (its a bit above Portugal). This was taken someplace close to Gijon, north Spain.
Same place as the photo of Paul above.

I had a grand idea of finding some amazing waterfall however our tom tom did not know any of the areas that we put in and the map we had only gave us a general idea of where it would be. Although we failed at finding it we did go up the mountain Orduna which the waterfall is apparently close to and saw an amazing view.

On the way back from our waterfall hunt. We ate lunch here. Incredible mountains all around and it was so peaceful. Only two cars drove past in the 30 or so minutes we were there.

The Gurggenheim museum

In Bilbao- Spain

View of Bilbao

We spent a couple of days with K & B. Was so nice to see them. This photo was taken while having dinner. As you can see right by the water. The chef was also fishing between cooking all of the meals.

Me in Biarritz in France

Paul in Biarritz

At the campsite.

Top of Pilat Dune

Before our walk up the dune. Steps to the top of the dune made it much easier to walk up than the massive dune in NZ!

The start of our van trip

On the 1st of May 2009 we left for our 3 1/2 month trip of Europe. Here are some photos of what we have gotten up to so far....

Eating a baguette. Everyday we see person after person carrying their baguettes.

Dinner on the beach. Paul made a tasty pasta packet.

St Malo. Very beautiful walled city.

Mont-st-michel. It was a very rainy day when we went here. Would have been stunning if the sun was out.

Paul at Omaha beach. One of the D day beaches. We camped at this beach for the night.

Canterbury in England.