This beautiful poem reflects perfectly the feeling that progress step by step through this magical temple, surrounded by columns and voussoirs colors, red and white, which seems a strange nonsignalized in a maze of lights and shadows. Progressant of its interior, without reducing Vista, always watching their arches and ceilings, which we heard in the midst of their silence, in the way that our marble passages are lost on a route in no particular order, nor definitive. But we begin with it is perhaps one of the most beautiful places that we find ourselves in Cordoba, the city which houses Caliphate this impressive work of art that is the mosque: Patio de los Naranjos. At its heart, and try to inhale its scents April and May-orange flower, freshness, freedom. And surrounded in the warm scent, remember how Arabic at the time, then, in the courtyard of ablution are the same, that justice at the gates of the temple were distributed, we will look at another of his hand, and They will, or astronomers, mathematicians and many scholars who populated Cordoba at the time that one of his knowledge spread among people on foot, and the actors and theaters or entertaining with their legends and stories for children, who, sitting around themselves around Entassés Hers. El Patio de los Naranjos, today, is regarded as the oldest living garden of Europe, because its origins date to the year 784, under the rule of Abd al-Rahman I. If nicialmente, these gardens were mainly composed of cypress and palm trees, these days are invading orange: orange nineties, which was planted in the eighteenth century.

Since the sixteenth century, on the other hand, are the cloisters, on one side of the garden, we can observe. Its close proximity to one hundred and thirty meters, and sealed, is divided into three gardens in the center of which there is a wonderful source. … And once inhaled admired and atmosphere of this magnificent garden, the heart shrinks when you put your foot in the temple and see for the first time the impressive Hall of Columns… more than 800 columns and arches, which are distributed and Hide geometrically Back at the bottom in an endless landscape. One was clean Abd al-Rahman I, which began its construction, the construction of its first oratorio, in the mid-eighth century, is modeled on a mosque that existed at that time in Jerusalem. The result was the construction of eleven boats with 110 columns of marble and granite, with capitals and Roman. Of these, vaulted arches in red and white. Their descendants, Abd al-Rahman III, was ordered to lift Alminar half a century later, as Al-Hakam II has expanded the mosque twelve sections. In the last minute of Al-Manzor this is the part where the blue marble columns, the time that near the surface of the mosque doubled in size up to 24000 m2 a. Both perhaps the most beautiful parts of the temple belongs to the era of Al-Hakam II: marble Mihrab, the rich decoration work, and the octagonal cupola of the Kibla, with interlocking arcs. Meanwhile, the emphasis is on the ball and Corinthian capitals pale blue and pink. Perhaps the construction of the Cathedral Christian was one of the greatest aberrations than they were able to do so since the reform of the architecture, because part of the work done over time has been destroyed by Abd al-Rahman III and Almanzor. Its construction began under the supervision of a former Hernan Ruiz in 1523, by express mandate of Charles V, but it was not finished in the year 1766. In it, combine styles Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, and the cruise ship are in a Latin cross, with Gothic arches. The area of Alminar, the tower located in the yard, from which Arabic time, it calls for prayer, has been covered with Baroque elements, which covers therefore, all those that Arabic remains the composer. It is necessary to insist on two curiosities in this building: first, I suppose that no mosque towards Mecca…. The latter in particular, despite being the third largest in the world, is not because his direction is towards Damascus, a city that felt by his passion Secondly Abd al-Rahman I, the situation in the Mihrab. The Mihrab is the holiest site of the Arabs tmeplo anyone, and recalling that the site occupied Prophet Mohammed in his mosque in Medina. It is located in the bow or put in the center of the wall of the Kibla, which marks the direction of Mecca. In the case of the Mosque of Cordoba, the Mihrab is not located in the center of the temple, where it should be, and this should be forthcoming expansion that has made Almanzor, to make the region in the East, because they no longer There was more space left by the other parties to the left of its location outside the school. … And once admired this wonder, declared a World Heritage Site, because we have left to us losing by narrow alleys of the city of the Jewish… But that is another story….

The first time I was in Barcelona I spent a grand total of an hour, seeing little more than the Sagrada Familia (which was impressive btw).

This time thankfully, I got a night and the better part of an afternoon. Doesn’t sound long but I had the priceless advantage of a local as a guide and chauffeur!

We weren’t flying in early to start with but the flight delay by over an hour meant that we were too late to catch the special Christmas lighting at the Sagrada Familia and at many places. The rain was also keeping people behind doors so it was a rather quiet Saturday night in the Catalonian capital.

We drove around town for an overview and swung by Camp Nou, where to my surprise, some dedicated shemales perched by the roadside touting their services despite the weather. Even though it wasn’t exactly legal business and conducted in full view of some policemen no less, everybody seemed oblivious to the going-ons.

We also passed the stylish Art Hotel as we took in the glitz of the trendy marina with its well-heeled clientele of trendy locals and inhibition-free tourists.

The can´t it says it enough. Granada is therefore beautiful. The constructions are all the much old and much only one. The ways are tightened and to confusionare. Perfect It´s therefore. It remembers to me of the fourth Latin to Paris. But I understand that what the ppl is saying. Great improvement. When we have arrived to Granada, we have gone straight to our house of Senora´s. My Senora alive in a appartment of smallist in one calm vicinity. As well as like my vicinity to Paris. The appartment it is the much smallest one. Therefore on the sense to the appartment, we were having difficulty that we find one carrozza. It was beginning to play like we were going it must take a bus. To leave it just opinion that mine suitcase hung 100 pounds legitimately. Nobody to joke. Therefore my crews were approximately in order falling give. Fortunately, we have found one carrozza. Fabulous. We have obtained to the appartment and I have uprooted my tip and I have torn the half of the nail on my large tips. It still hurts. After to have removed my foot and to have fallen our bags, me and the I´m girl who lives with she, Sophie has gone on one walk around to the vicinity. It was an afternoon of Sunday so as to the things were mainly calm but there are many great things. Pics gives to come.

We have gone behind for the lunch and have eaten with our Senora and a girl who had lived before with she. The meal was small. And I eat mólto so as to I was still after excellent hungry person. Genevieve is going starve. After the lunch, the girl, Ines have shown to us where our university is. On the sense a large one has shown us sure roba. We are concluded on walking for like 4 hours and we it saws therefore a lot of the city. He was large. We have gone to the advanced part of a hill and have seen one seen of the Alhambra and the city. The parts of the city are a lot center them – kool of the it´s and orient them therefore. Small storees with roba large. A lot the ppl will obtain the present ones from these placed to you. The storees of sheesha are therefore cute with the small tables and chairs and all the imaginable teas of sapore. We are concluded to case on entering in one bar with the mojitos of 1 euro. The OH yes. We have paid only that first one. The bartender was in the love with Ines so as to she has continued to give free drinks to us. I have spotted a polverosa bottle of Selecto (Venezuelan rum from the factory me and Fern visits to you) and I have said the bartender to it. Free blows. On the domestic sense, I have stopped to obtain one shwarma. Man of the OH. Good Sooooooo. That what has made the walk that fabulous additional really deep conversation with Ines was I has had one approximately poverty, ppl defective, ppl rich, duration and all the kinds of other things. That was all in the Spanish mind you. He was therefore large. Task that has fallen in the love with she. And divertimento of she´s therefore the a lot. Unforgetable.

Is so much this evening our last night in Barcelona and as much as I am sad to leave our next stop should be completely astonishing in oneself. But before I say to you about where we will go tomorrow, I want to say to you a little about our time in Barcelona.

Well then having a good sleep in the train lasting during the night (with our great surprise) we arrived at beautiful Barcelona, and rather fortunately we were approached by a type (this later we find outside were called Mario) saying to us about its pension thus us did not have the drudgery to find a bed for the days to come. Thus on the subway to find the pension, was not too hard unless it has y thus have a technical problem we had to get out of the subway and to find another manner. Well we had a little walk additional to make but at the end arrived there we. The Palacio pension is not bad for a pension, rather clean and the personnel are really friendly. The pension is close to the Gothic part of the city and probably of the nicest part, as well as 10 minutes of the beach. Although, we really we are not directed there to swim much. The beach was the well really occupied and not better but of the OH. Thus our first harms here we decided to direct us for a drink or two. We really had not drunk for a long time thus that did not take to us a long time to become tipsy. It was the first time in 5 weeks which we had been drunk. We had one night of recreation and we fortunately managed to come accidentally by a cheap bar. (Barcelona can be expensive) unfortunately, we did not have the camera so much there are not any photograph of this night. Although it was not one of end of night, house by 2:30 which we always managed to sleep half of the day.

Was the day following the pretty one calms, us struck the beach went to see around, gone by the water, which was completely hot. Not like the street Kilda of the whole. This night was one night and a bed of film. Sad really, considering we are in a fresh city of part. However, it is everywhere along the beach in Spain in summer. Thus we will have other nights with the fiesta (left).

The Ed and I installed this trip to the months of previous Spain in their office. I have an inner connection, so when watching in its great calendar of the machine of the toy I it happened in the trip of the E.E.U.U., jumped over the weeks of the Euro-competition and was right for the more substantial time slot–the two weeks last in Europe before they fixed to the equipment to come to house–days of dozen of a baker of the pure action of the street. I spoke with the Ed to the week before it had to solve them. In addition to its desire for the crude streets, I found outside towards Caswell had gained the competition of Lausanne and the Ed had struck itself towards outside, Deanna again (and the more probably possible dice an attack of the near-heart). This one was his third or the fourth cerebral commotion in two years and it felt sketched comprehensible towards outside (the photo of O’Dell is seen if you wish to know because). The 15 of July, Nate Broussard and I flew outside towards solving the rest of the equipment: Ed and Deanna, Diego Bucchieri, berry of Caswell, Austin Stephens and Dave Huang, filmer. He had installed a rent van that will be taken in the airport, but somewhere throughout the way, the Ed had been spoken outside obtaining it and had cancelled the reservation. “To take the meter and the skating it is easier way” he said to me. I am not safe who said this to you, but am enough safe he was not photographer. “Yes. Hardly we will slide of point to the point” My pain begun back in the anticipation. In theory, the meter is a great way to see and to slide the city. It really is, if your mission of the skid is one of those passage–streets, carve-in-and-towards outside, Chin-type strolls of doing explode-load-of-superfluous-ollies-one-the–Bone-Brigade-in-Animal. He is sweet. Nevertheless, the modern adventure of the skid implies such requirements of high technology of the photography and heavy inclination of the production that metro/el method skater is really more of a pain in the ass and not like those tests of “skateboarding=freedom” that you read around in PAT. You can take the meter through the city, hooks he six blocks to the point, obtain struck with the foot towards outside in two minutes and spending actually another hour that obtains through city to the following point. If you are the average European skater who baggage includes three euros and a package of the hashish, cago, I go for him, unfortunately, to have the great purse. Hatred to even bring it for above again. I always feel like a baby, complaining about the stupid purse, but the gear of the camera that treatment of weight near 150 pounds and is slaughter. We took the multiple taxis per days of a pair. Then finally we obtained the rent cars. It had of three days delays obtaining of the rent cars because we had to wait for until one with an automatic transmission was available. That correct, between six grown men and Deanna, was the unique one who could lead a small stick. And the boy, was I to the pull on him.