Sunday, October 18, 2009

Back from holidays

We already been in France for4 days.
Saw and stay with family. We are on our way to Rouen
to see and stay with more family.
Stopped at Vigny and took this photo of and old castle.
Now it is a private residence
Stop for lunch at Giverny.
This is the garden of Claude Monet.
Had a $36 salad ($72 for us both)
La Rochelle

After driving all along the French coast
across Spain we arrived in Portugal
the house on the Costa Nova.

Portugal: Nazere

Portugal: Lisboa, Lisbone.
yes I am wearing my bag back to front.
this morning i have been rob.
Boy i let him have it I could have kill him
and with Claude yelling "policia, policia"
He gave me back my camera bag.
I felt in love with the pots in ceramic.

Back in Spain. Seville
people leave their door open but there is a gate.
they live at the bottom of the house in summer and the top in winter
Gibraltar.
did you know that this rock is full of tunnels and caves?
Amazing.
Spain: the Alhambra
the beauty of it.
What a lot of work went into the decoration.

the Alhambra

a very steep Little road in the
Spanish Pyrenees

Andorra

back to France
les ramparts de Carcassonne



Baux en Provence.

YES I am.
I am dancing on the bridge of Avignon
like they say in the children song.

Avignon bridge, what is left of it

the pont du Gard

the viaduc de Millau

the viaduct of Garabit
created by
Gustave Eiffel from the Eiffel tower.

Back in Paris.
we are leaving the next day
All in all a very intensive holiday.
We saw a lot of interesting
buildings and lovely scenery.
Every day we visited something.
We did 7000km
When I got home I slept for 24 hours.





















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