We spent here 3 nights in total. Many movies have been filmed here, for example, scenes of Game of Thrones and Star Wars.

Parliament Garden near parliament View from some tower View from some tower View from some tower Perfection Wherever we go in southern Spain and Portugal, streets are decorated in all cities Pigeons doing their pigeon things - humiliating statues Flowers everywhere Shopping mall One happy... ... other happy too :) The huge and beautifull cathedral - Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See. It's the 3rd largest church in the worl and largest Ghotic cathedral in the world. Cathedral Cathedral Cathedral Plaza de España. Here they have taken a scene from Star Wors Plaza de España. Plaza de España. Plaza de España. Plaza de España. Plaza de España. Torre del Oro and the river

Early morning in Granada to see the beautiful palace and fortress complex Alhambra, and continue to Seville.

This tower looks good from many different spots and windows here ^^ Gardens The driving around below the highest peak of continental Spain on mountain range Sierra Nevada

On our way to Seville, we made a stop in Córdoba. Such a pity we spent so short time there. What I though would be a small, not too interesting city, turned out to be a real beauty! :)

City wall A gate leading to a bridge From the other side of the gate Mosque of Córdoba We both angry. Where's food?

We stayed here for 1 week and planed to visit Malaga, Ronda, Granada, Gibraltar and Cordoba during our stay here.
We have flat with a great view on mountains and a very active football field from our balcony! This little town have very lively bars all day long. The only difference to other cities is that thous bars and restaurants are occupied by retired British people. Sometimes we were wandering in which country we really are and are we the youngest people here? :D
Just in a walking distance we could reach various beaches of Benalmadena. We took the chance and did a hike up on one of the mountains. The view was obviously great :p

Sunrise and a little rainbow out of our balcony Early morning walk to the sea Early morning walk to the sea Promenade Early morning walk to the sea Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Hiking up a nearby hill, hunting for great views Football in the morning, daytime, late evening, all live out of our balcony :)

We chose the best day for an "adventurous" road trip - at the arrival in Gibraltar we cough a thunderstorm!

First we went to Ronda and saw probably one of the most beautiful bridges ever built - Puente Nuevo! It's connecting 2 parts of the city Ronda, opened at the very end of 18th century, reaching 98m of height. It have taken quite some people lives - first during its construction 50 workers have died, and later during the civil war, a chamber in the bridge was used as a prison, where prisoners were thrown down through the windows.

Well, in Ronda the weather was windy and rainy, but still quite ok.
We headed to Gibraltar and were happy to find that we can keep on driving on the right side :) When we finally arrived at the cape, a heavy rain started. For few minutes, wearing a rain coat, we manages to get out of the car, take few pictures and observe the angry waves of the sea. The Rock of Gibraltar, that stretches through the middle of Gibraltar, is more than 400m high and contains many tunneled roads that are opened only for military.

Interestingly, the last referendum of Spanish sovereignty was organised in 2002, which Gibraltarians, of course, rejected.

On the way back we had to turn around and look for another way. The rain water collected on the street deep enough, that one car in front of us left standing in the huge puddle. The city was full of water and further on most of the road was very rainy and windy. We're happy to be safe at home now :)

Oh, yes, and we were in Los Angelos :D (see in pictures).

Ronda Ronda Ronda Ronda Ronda Ronda On the way to Gibraltar, we made a small stop in Los Angelos ;) The main road in Gibraltar - Europa Road Gibraltar Gibraltar Streets during rain in Gibraltar Angry, stormy sea on our way home

Great day at Picasso museum! Malaga is Picasso's place of birth and therefore has a museum with lots of donated pictures from his family members.
And of course picture time:)

Just a lovely house on a small street Cathedral. Cathedral. It's so huge actually in such a tiny street, that it's hard to make a good picture from near. Rodeao Someone happy enjoying sangria :) Jummy tapas Fortress

We were lucky to stay at a beautiful location right near the ocean at our friends place. We took few walks along the beach and enjoyed some Valencia paella. One evening we observed a huge moon spreading its light all over the sea and a little Venice alike building block nearby the beach :) We really wanted to take a picture of the moon, but i the dark it didn't work out and we just had to live with the thought that not every nice moment has to be documented. We have our memory for that :)

In Valencia you can see the green river. It used to be a river going through the city that flooded in 1957. After that city decided to dry it. Now it is a huge park with old bridges over your head. Absolutely weird to walk along a park that used to be a river bead :)
Another impressive thing in Valencia is the City of Art and Science complex. It's been built between years 1996 and 2005. The architecture looks like from a different world. Very modern and at the same time sort of cosmic. Buildings are used mainly for exhibitions, as museums, concert and opera hall. There is even little garden with palms and cactus on on of the roofs :)

We took the free city tour and ended up eating nice tapas near one of the biggest markets in Europe. Tapas places around the market always have fresh fish and other ingredients.
One of the interesting points in tour was the silk market that basically was a bank. Silk market has a little tour where people who couldn't pay their loans ended up for 3 month. If nobody payed their loan during this period, these people were executed. Interesting method to deal with debts.

Park that used to be a river Park that used to be a river Art and Science city Art and Science city Art and Science city Art and Science city Art and Science city's garden on the rooftop Art and Science city Cathedral Sealing of the basilica Market Market The symbol of market - parrot. Guess why :) Pans for paella The most narrow house in the world - 107 cm Cathedral and basilica. Notice the bridge between the both. That's for bishop, so he doesn't need to walk on the square with poor/normal people. Eating paella near market with fresh ingredients :) Take this policeman serious :)

We stayed here at Peter's friends Leo's place for well... over a week in total, visiting the beach and enjoying a bit of other parts in Barcelona. This is a view of Barcelona we took one night from Tibidabo.

From el Teide we continued our way to Los Gigantes - prominent cliffs at the sea. We didn't spend much time here and carried on to Masca.

We actually were not really sure what we should see here and just went on a very narrow ( comfortable width for only one car ) road through mountains and eventually realized that that the important thing was on the road! Beautiful views on the valley through which we could see even glimpses from the ocean. The road itself was a great challenge that sure brought up a lot of adrenaline. Peter dealt with it very well, but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to drive these steep slopes and sharp turns where you can't see any cars that might be coming ahead to you. There will be a video where I will include the drive on this road ;)

On the way from Teide to Los Gigantes Here you can see another island - La Gomera. It's the closest island to Tenerife. Crazy road to Masca (in the picture doesn't look that crazy, but believe me it was) Masca. Though the valley you can see the ocean and La Gomera A street of some town where we were eating lunch

It was middle of the night, when the alarm rang. Sigita jumped up full of excitement - Yeah, finally we'll visit Teide today. I just got to bed few hours earlier and wasn't really in the mood to drive an old truck up to a volcano. Although, thinking about it now, it does sound adventurous. After a short breakfast (or midnight snack), off we went into the night. The GPS calculated the shortest route for us, which was much more fun the main road we thought we would be taking. 2 hours and 2500m in altitude later, we reached the base of Teide's cable car. Just in time to make amazing pictures of the sunrise in this stunningly looking environment.

Peter

Today was the long awaited day when we went up the volcano el Teide and it was amazing! Wiki says "it is the third highest volcano on a volcanic ocean island". If you ever want to have a feeling you're on the Mars, this place definitely leaves that kind of impression. This can't be a place on Earth! :) We wanted to go there and see the sunrise but the first cable car should have been going up only at 9 am. Due to the wind, it was almost 1,5 h late. However, we managed to take some pictures of the peak in sunrise on our way there.
To reach the crater, we should have requested a permit 2 month earlier as it has limited number of people who can visit it. So we didn't get there. Anyway, I think this was an amazing experience and we were missing only the last 200 m to the peak. At 3554 m we both were as high as never before (well, except flying in a plain..:) ) !
Ouh, and I took plenty of rocks with me :D

Sigita

Teide in sunrise A view from Teide Taken while we were waiting at the cable car to get up to Teide A view from Teide The peak of Teide A view from cable car A view from Teide Picture of Teide on our way to Los Gigantes