Pictures from Spain
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Andalucia,
Spain
Thursday, October 30, 2003
We're back from Spain and in short, IT WAS AWESOME!!! I don't know how I can stress this enough but if T-Pod allowed me to underline, italicize, bold, and change the font size and color, I would.
It will take some time to complete the T-Pod but in the meantime, here are our pics. We only took 280 of them. Because of the huge number of pics, we loaded them on www.FujiFilm.net because we probably would've crashed the T-Pod site had we used that.
For a limited time, you can view them and if you are real fans of Kantors_Abroad, you can even order pics from the website. Because I am such a cheap bastard, we signed up for 3 different FujiFilm accounts since there is a limit of 100 free pics per account.
So, here's what you can do...
1. Go to http://www.fujifilm.net/share/guest_enter.asp?id=120551
2. Enter the email address "Kantors_Abroad@yahoo.com"
3. Select "View Slideshow" on the left.
Note: If you select the Slideshow Speed of "Faster", it flips to the next pic in less than a second so that will help you plow through the 280 pics in less than 5 minutes.
To view pics 101-200, repeat the steps above but for step 1, go to http://www.fujifilm.net/share/guest_enter.asp?id=120640
To view pics 201-280, repeat the steps above but for step 1, go to http://www.fujifilm.net/share/guest_enter.asp?id=120672
Lastly, below is a list of what all 280 pics are of.
I hope you enjoy!
-Stephen
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Oct 15 (Day 1): Amsterdam - Malaga - Nerja (beach) - Granada
1 Julie researching where we should go next while at lunch in Nerja
2 The beach we hiked down to on the way to Granada
3 A castle ruin we passed on the hike to the beach
4 Me relaxing on the beach
5 Julie relaxing on the beach
6 The Med. Sea crashing up on the beach
7 Castle ruin among a typical "white village" we passed on the drive to Granada
8 Our room at Hostal Vienna in Granada
Oct 16 (Day 2): Granada (Alhambra)
9 Julie with cannons at the Alhambra, an 11-centry Muslim fortress/palace
10 Stephen at the Alhambra entry
11 Outside the Alcazaba
12 Entry gate
13 Close up on an entry gate mosaic
14 Julie with flowers
15 Me at an enormous gate
16 Another close up on an entry gate mosaic
17 Julie at the Palacio de Carlos V
18 Julie upstairs at the Palacio de Carlos V
19 Julie listening to the audio tour with the old Muslim quarter, Albayzin, in the background
20 Me looking onto the Albayzin while listening to the audio tour
21 Albayzin neighborhood
22 Me and Julie at the Alcazaba
23 Dungeon ruins
24 Moat
25 View out a window
26 View of Granada - the Cathedral is the big building in the center
27 Another view
28 Me pretending to ring the town bell on the Torre de la Vela
29 Julie with flowers just outside the Alcazaba
30 The bravest cat I've met since Milo
31 Julie in the Alcazaba garden
32 Julie outside the Palacio Nazaries
33 Geometric wall design
34 Another geometric wall design and an intricate wooden ceiling
35 Mosaic porcelain tiles
36 Lacelike windows looking out onto Albayzin
37 Close-up on windows
38 Julie in a typical room with mosaic porcelain tiles and geometric wall designs
39 Wooden and gold-leafed ceiling
40 Patio del Cuarto Dorado
41 Another pic of the Patio de los Arrayanes
42 Reflection pool in the Patio de los Arrayanes
43 Me in the Patio de los Arrayanes
44 Julie in the Patio de los Leones
45 Fountain lions in the Patio de los Leones
46 Close-up of hand and Arabic in geometric wall design
47 Julie reading in the Sala de los Abencerrajes
48 Intricate design in the ceiling of the Sala de los Abencerrajes
49 Doorways in the Sala de los Abencerrajes
50 Julie looking out a window
51 Another pic of the fountain lions in the Patio de los Leones
52 Julie in the Sala de Dos Hermanos
53 Jardines del Partal
54 Stone design in the Jardines del Partal
55 Sala de los Ajimeces
56 Mirador de Lindaraja
57 Jardines del Partal
58 Tiled floors through the Palacio Nazaries
59 Bano de Comares bathhouse
60 Julie looking out gate
61 Another reflection pool
62 Another lacelike window looking onto the Albayzin
63 Cat looking at its reflection
64 Julie with a reflection pool
65 Cool looking room
66 Moat leading to Generlife, a giant garden
67 Julie in the Generlife
68 Close-up of flower
69 Patio de la Acequia
70 Jardin de la Sultana
71 View onto the Patio de la Acequia
72 Jardin de la Sultana
73 Julie having a snack
74 Julie with the Escalera del Agua - water runs along the handrail of the stairs
Oct 17 (Day 3): Granada (market, Cathedral, Albayzin)
75 Bread shop at the Mercado Central San Agustin market
76 Fruit stand
77 Store where I bought my pocket knife
78 Beggar outside the Cathedral with the smartest dog (even smarter than Chloe) sucking a pacifier
79 La Madraza, the old Muslim university, which is now part of the modern university
80 Interior of the Cathedral
81 Another pic of the Cathedral, which was built from 1521 through the 18th-century
82 Gold religious thing
83 Organ
84 Alter
85 Stained-glass window in the Cathedral
86 Another gold religious thing I thought was pretty
87 Julie walking down a small street in the Albayzin
88 Julie and I wearing hats in some small Moroccan restaurant in the Albayzin
89 Me walking down a small street
90 Julie with a typical polka-dot child's dress
91 Julie outside a cool ice cream parlor
92 Julie walking towards a city gate
93 Cool religious statue above a city gate
94 Typical Spanish street sign
95 Julie and I with the Alhambra in the background
96 This is not Alfred Hitchcock, it's the Max Miroux Carmen, a typical Granada Muslim hillside garden
97 Max Miroux's house
98 Julie and I in the carmen
99 Julie liked the blue doors leading to the Max Miroux Carmen
100 Julie in a street in the Albayzin
101 Crowded market street
102 Alhambra at night
103 Julie and I at dinner in courtyard
Oct 18 (Day 4): Granada - Capileira (hiking) - Granada
104 White villages in the Sierra Nevada mountains
105 Julie and I about to leave for our 4 ½ hour hike
106 The Las Alpujarras valley and Sierra Nevada mountains
107 Julie crossing a stream
108 Beautiful scenery
109 Julie and I with a rapid in the background
110 Close-up of stream
111 The white village of Capileira
112 Julie leading
113 Julie and I with Capileira in the background
114 Julie with a mountain house
115 A lone yellow tree
116 Me resting on a patch of grass
117 Julie hiking uphill
118 Julie with a house in the white village of Bubion - note this is NOT the town we started in
119 Mountains beyond the flat grassed roof
120 Capileira
121 Julie finally back in Capileira
122 A celebration after our 4 ½ hour hike...a well-deserved beer and a well-deserved ice cream
123 Old people who just got off a tour bus and immediately sat and smoked
124 Cruzcampo, basically the only beer in Spain
Oct 19 (Day 5): Granada - Baeza (tour of olive oil manufacturing) - Cordoba
125 Eating my donut with a knife and folk like Mr. Pitt does
126 Julie with Julie-sized oil jugs
127 Me with an oil press
128 Julie with a donkey-powered olive masher which produces an olive paste that is put in the press (Picture 127)
129 Huge oil vat
130 Endless rows of oil trees - there are more than 40 million in this area of southern Spain alone
131 The Cordoba Mezquita at night
132 Our huge comfy room at the Cordoba Parador
133 Another view of our room
Oct 20 (Day 6): Cordoba (Mezquita)
134 Julie resting at a fountain in the Patio de los Naranjos
135 Julie in the Mezquita, a mosque which was built beginning in 875 and converted to a church in the 16th-century
136 A Christian addition
137 Muslim designed walls and doorways
138 The Mihrab
139 Julie looking at the gold relics in the Treasury
140 Gorgeous arches made of red brick and white stone
141 More of the Christian additions
142 Julie with the alter
143 The organ
144 Julie and I in front of the arches
145 Julie and I in the Patio de los Naranjos
146 What is this huge crowd waiting for?
147 It's Prince Philippe, the heir to the throne
148 A doorway leading to the Mezquita
149 Julie and I eating lunch in the courtyard of a typical taberna
150 Flowers lead the way to the Mezquita
151 Puente Romano and the Rio Guadalquivir
152 The walls of the city and the Alcazaba
153 Tons of cats along the wall of the Alcazaba
154 Julie with the sign for the Parador
Oct 21 (Day 7): Cordoba (Sinagoga) - Sevilla (Alcazaba)
155 The upstairs woman's section with geometric Muslin-looking walls
156 Where the ark used to be which now has a cross painted on the wall
157 Statue of Maimonides, who was born up the street
158 Julie listening to the audio tour at the Alcazaba in Sevilla
159 Garden in the Alcazaba, a Muslim fort/palace from 913 through the 14th-century
160 Pretty room of the Sala de Audiencias
161 Entrance to the Palacio de Don Pedro
162 Patio del Leon
163 Mosaic porcelain tiles and geometric wall designs
164 Patio del Yeso
165 Geometric wall designs
166 Wooden and gold-leafed ceiling
167 View of the Patio de las Munecas
168 Yellow-trimmed room of the Salones de Carlos V
169 Julie with mosaic porcelain tiles
170 Salon de Tapices
171 Garden
172 Julie lost in the maze
173 Julie and I with the Torre del Oro in the background at night
174 Young musicians assembled at the Tore del Oro
175 Julie relaxing with a beer at an outdoor tapas bar
176 Julie and I enjoying tapas at in outdoor plaza
177 A wandering guitarist who was tipped E1 and the rest of Julie's calamari's
178 The Sevilla Cathedral at night
179 Another picture of the Cathedral
180 Julie showing off her high school gymnastics skills
Oct 22 (Day 8): Sevilla (Cathedral, Plaza de Espana, and Plaza de Toros)
181 Julie wearing her swimming goggles despite being afraid to race me throughout the trip
182 Our room at the Hostal Arias
183 Inside the Cathedral
184 Stained-glass window
185 A chapel
186 Christopher Columbus' remains
187 Golden alter
188 Sacristia Mayor
189 Julie looking out onto town from La Giralda
190 View of Barrio de Santa Cruz
191 View of Alcazaba
192 La Giralda church bells
193 View of the huge Cathedral - the 3rd largest church in the world
194 View of the Plaza de Toros
195 Close-up of the Cathedral
196 Sun shining through the stained-glass windows
197 Julie with the fountain in the Plaza de Espana
198 Julie and I sitting in the Plaza de Espana
199 Julie in the Parque de Maria Luisa
200 Really cool-looking building
201 Julie waiting to get into the Plaza de Toros
202 A tour guide explaining the bullfight - although the season is already over, we probably wouldn't have see one
203 The President's area
204 Me with a statue of some toreador
205 Interior of a typical tapas bar - notice the pigs legs hanging from the ceiling
206 Julie posing with a toro
207 Jamon hanging and on the carver
Oct 23 (Day 9): Sevilla - Jerez (horse show, sherry making, flamenco)
208 Our car COVERED in horse poop as a result of the street-cleaning
209 Horse show at the Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Exuestre - a no pictures policy was STRICTLY enforced
210 The only other picture I was able to take at the horse show in Jerez
211 Julie outside the horseshow with these awesome flowers that were all over Spain
212 Our tour guide at the Sandeman sherry Bodega
213 Julie with oak barrels full of sherry
214 A man making churros in the middle of a plaza
215 Pig legs for sale at the grocery store
216 Julie in front of some statue of a man who did something with sherry
217 A flamenco performance
218 Our room at Hotel Torres
Oct 24 (Day 10): Jerez - Arcos - Zahara (hiking)
219 Earthquake reinforcements on the Basilica-Parroquia de Santa Maria in Arcos
220 Julie getting cookies from the one-way mirror thing from the nuns of Iglesia de San Pedro
221 Julie with curved lookouts in the windows
222 Narrow street
223 Painting plates by hand
224 Reinforcements to protect the buildings from erratic donkey-cart drivers (like Julie would've been)
225 Me with the town in the background
226 Up the hill
227 Julie with home and Basilica-Parroquia de Santa Maria in the background
228 Blue sky with Basilica-Parroquia de Santa Maria
229 Lookout point which looks straight down the cliff
230 Julie and I at the lookout
231 A long way down
232 Driving the very tight roads
233 Julie and I with Arco in the background
234 Another view leaving Arcos
235 Driving into the country
236 The Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema
237 Julie in the national park
238 The 1500-resident village of Zahara in the distance
239 Narrow road of Zahara
240 Zahara with lake in background
241 Julie hiking to the caves if Garganta Verde
242 Me hiking too
243 Gorgeous greenery
244 Rock formation
245 Julie and I taking a break for a picture
246 More scenery
247 The caves
248 Julie climbing rocks to get to the caves
249 Julie and I just outside the caves
250 Iglesia de Santa Maria de la Mesa with castle ruins above in the hill
251 Our room at the Hostal Marques de Zahara
Oct 25 (Day 11): Zahara - Ronda - Torremolinos
252 A street market was created around our car
253 View of Zahara
254 Strange trees with no bark
255 Julie hiding from the rain in Ronda
256 Puente Nuevo and El Tajo Gorge in the background
257 AMAZING fog creeping over the mountains
258 The deep deep fog we drove through
259 Ridiculous rain storm
260 Flooded street
Oct 26 (Day 12): Torremolinos - Gibraltar (hiking) - Torremolinos
261 Rock of Gibraltar in the distance
262 The Upper Rock Nature Reserve
263 Road sign with directions to "Spain"
264 Barbary macaque
265 Julie posing with a monkey
266 Mommy monkey carrying baby monkey on its back
267 Monkeys surround the car of some idiot who was feeding them despite the many signs warning not to
268 Monkeys enjoying the view of the Strait of Gibraltar
269 "Do not feed the monkeys"
270 A tour guide feeding the monkeys
271 The monkey telling which way to the monkeys
272 Monkey holding her baby
273 Child monkey grooming daddy monkey
274 A British telephone booth in the middle of our Spain trip
Oct 27 (Day 13): Torremolinos - Malaga - Amsterdam
275 Our room at the Hotel Miami in Torremolinos
276 View of the pool from our room
277 View of the patio from our room
278 Me playing during our delay at the airport
279 13 days of facial hair growth - I'm such a big boy
280 My 70s porno mustache
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