beach in sweden, more to come tomorrow....

cooking with moy in sweden

guacamole with the enchiladas.
we had a french theme in sweden, crepes bretagne.
moy is so pretty! cooking coq au vin. continuing the theme.
goat cheese enchilada night. we miss mexican food!

lisboa, love it.

ceramic tile facades, common through out portugal.
streetcar. lisbon had the first system to scale hills, still running today as an everyday mode of transportation.
my favorite part of lisbon. a church whose infill walls were destroyed in the 1755 earthquake and now all remains is the structure, the arches.
dad and i, at the top of one of lisbon's elevators that help people scale the 7 hills of the city....or really just for tourists. interestingly enough, the transportation pass includes elevators.
the brother and me, in lisboa.

great city. super old. really walkable. scaled to the human. streetcar charm. and the food is slightly better than spain's, but that's not hard at all people....

another sunday out.

the view to portugal. came so close again, but still haven't gone across.
the ruins of a celtic village dating from 2BC. it is a little dark, we were racing against the sun. but what is there in the foto, are a ton of small circular stone foundations, one on top of the other. could this be why there are spanish people with red hair???
monastery, the nucleus of it first constructed in the 12 century. whereas the facade is from the 18th century. behind the view of the camera is the ocean. nuns with beachfront property. it is being turned into a hotel, which would be an A-mazing place to stay.
a view from the parador in Baiona, on the way south to Portugal. we took a road out of Vigo, and kept heading south stopping at the little towns along the way. Baiona, is where the first mission to the Indies (aka America) returned to. the parador itself where people can stay, was built in the 50s. but all the walls, bridges, and towers are from.....well a really long time ago.
me and my french land lady. she is short, and i am not.



me, the parador walls, and some amazing coastline.