Monday, March 3, 2008

Gibraltar, Sevilla, Cordoba

Unfortunately on our 3 day, 3 cities vacation we had really bad weather. So, I didn't take very many pictures. Also all of our tours, this time, were in Spanish so I only understood about 25% of what they were saying to us. I'll try to tell you as much as I can but the pictures won't be very descriptive. Besides that, the trip was good and we got to see some interesting things.


GIBRALTAR

The rock of Gibraltar.

It was really painful to take this picture. It was raining and 50mph winds! That's not a joke, I thought we were going to get swept away. We tried using umbrellas but they would turn inside out and you would still get all wet!
It's a little hard to tell but that's a sunken ship. It's a lot closer than the picture makes it seem. I would of told you the story of why it's still there but I didn't understand it!

We're inside the rock of Gibraltar, it was really beautiful inside. They also had a theatre inside for events and shows.

The monkeys are all over the rock and they're not afraid of you. I was trying not to get too close because they have 4 inch teeth and one of them bit another girl because she was trying to play with her baby! (she's not very bright) They really like to give high fives and they have the biggest/nastiest butts! hahaha

From the tip of Gibraltar you're supposed to be able to see Africa but since we had horrible weather we couldn't see it. But, we go to Morocco in May we will ship out from Gibraltar and be able to see Africa.

SEVILLA


We're goofing off in Plaza de Espana in Sevilla.

Posing infront of the Granada sign in Plaza de Espana, not sure why we decided on that pose though.

The Sevilla palace.

Of course every palace has to have a long pool filled with nasty green water.

The 2nd largest Cathedral in the world!

Christopher Columbus's tumb inside the cathedral.

Another view of his tomb.
The Organ inside the Cathedral. For some reason I really like the organs because they're so big and have millions of pipes.

You could walk up to the top of the Cathedral (36 flights to be exact) and this is the only picture I took on the way up!
A picture from the top.


CORDOBA

Cordoba actually had better weather but our bus got stuck in Sevilla for 3 hours because they shut down the city for a marathon and we couldn't drive anywhere until it was finished. So, our Cordoba trip was cut in half. Another Cathedral, I'm starting to think all they have in Spain is Palaces and Cathedrals. All of them are starting to look the same now!
The arches inside the cathedral. Since I didn't understand the tour guide I started at these thinking of candy canes.

The famous street in Cordoba. Calle de Flores (Street of the Flowers) I understood that!

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