*updated on 12thofAVRIL08*

im back in galway-for a few dys now
but still couldnt upload my photos frm spain which im not sure what exactly is t.prob
dont think it's bcos of t.size, not due to t.capacity provided/used as well, just couldnt mmmm....

spain was/is hot
hence im covered wth scratch marks all over,n now i have one more mission : turn it back to its usual condition,well need to since we'll b starting the attachment right away when the school start

we cvrd svrl cities crdoba, seville, granada, valencia, malaga, barcelona, madrid n toledo.








1-in cordoba we went to mezquita, some garden, n watched from afar one of the roman bridge. it was actually just across the road but the day was too hot, we constantly ate ice cream n have a bottle of water in our hands all the time, plus the bridge looks as if it's newly build using some different stone so i dont feel any regret not crossing it as all the tourist did heh, we were trapped in the semana santa celebration/parade on the evening of our first day. honestly never though i could witness it with my own eyes, n i thought they only have this kind of celebration in vatican city, i dont have a photo, but some other group member did snap their photos, so maybe later when im able to upload photo i'll post it up,oh n we tried paella here-it came in a large portion to b shared with min 2 people, but eventhough there's 5 of us we still couldnt finish it, so yeah it's a lots n of course a lots of seafood too :)2-in seville we went to their bull ring + museum, etc. the match started on the following sunday so yeah we missed it. it's not all yr round only around march up till oct or smthg, probably due to the weather, they have a heavy rain if it's started as happened during our stay in malaga, where we have to take cover for like 1 hour or so.

3-then we went to malaga i think,it's quite a big city with tons of museum n famous with picasso, also we went to ruin of roman theater, and alcazaba/sort of fortress like n we tried fried fish here. it's actually fried seafood but yeah we have different prefernces some might want to take it with sauce etc, n the cold soup-you can try but i'm not recommending :p4-after that to granada-yes to the main attraction i.e. alhambra where we que since 6.30 am but there were still many many other tourists who came earlier than us, so maybe u want to do online booking before u go there especially if it's during summer. the morning was freezing cold so everyone was like moving around to heat up their body but the day was hot as like other part of spain. alhambra is definitely a large area but i like the garden part the most, some sit on the next different hill so bring a suitable shoes. we went to albaycin n pray at probably the only msque in that area, it's located next to a church/cathedral (not that big i think), we ate kebab at the bottom of alhambra hill in the small city-finally we found a halal kebab shop :) n yeah the ice cream was good. a lady asked whether we r filipinos haha

5-we continued with valencia which has lots of cathedral, so we ended going to cntral market, the unesco gothic building, some tower, n some plaza before everyone decided to go to the aqurium(sort of). we watch the largest mary + baby jesus made from flower arrangement here, it's as big as the cathedral next to it, it was in the plaza we planned to go so that's y=err u guys can just skip this city really even the famous central market is just a market, the unesco building is not that great either, bcos u can find other gothic buildings all around spain

6-the next stop was barcelona-yes we went to the barcelona stadium though we didnt go in since they have a match on that day, some other places include sagrada familia(jewish thingy), some gaudi arts(as on/a buildings mind u haha=La Pedrera), we didnt get to go to montjuic(guess wrong spelling???), but we did reach the maritime site n yeah la ramblas street sort of like our shop street during weekend but their la ramblas is more lively err maybe more people heh, we had our lunch in one of kebab's house as well just that we were given seats in their bar area bcos of too many customers. i think it's here that u can see lots of gothic building

7-then for the next 3 days we stayed in madrid, one day was allocated for a day-trip to toledo about 1n a half hour by bus from madrid. madrid is a big city as expected, but it's easy to move around with the metro n sometime u can just walk to another metro station if the weather is good, here we went to the stadium haha, another places include retiro park which used to b a palace garden, it's quite big with boating lake and several small palace inside it, we had a breakfast in a cafe in front of the park. we tried its tortilla before continue our trip fr the day.we walked pass palaco real, but the que was too long so we just skip the palace n went straight to other places.
in toledo we went up the hill to alcaza(sort of palace), mezquita del cristo de la luz=from the name u can guess it has been converted to a church or maybe what left is only a ruin, in this cae it's more to a ruin, n also its plaza-plaza zocodover.oh there's morning market next to its tourist info centre, n they have sweet popcorn!:D which couldnt b found in galway hehe

8-if u want to shop for souvenir, albaycin is cheaper if u found the right shop ie muslim shop, some madrid shops are also offering quite a good price, u can bargain if u want but choose the right shops ok, like the one own by arabs, pakistanis people etc.n yeah beware of pickpocket-they normally move in groups