Spain and Portugal

I must say, the Canary Islands are spectacular! Highly recommended for a vacation. The pictures I posted don't give it justice and there are so many more I wanted to post but figured that would be good for now. Google Oscar Manrique and you will get a glimpse of the creative genius behind the architectural playground called Lanzarote.

Made it to Barcelona and experienced more artistic creativity. This time by a more well known individula named - Gaudi. Barcelona is a great city, very touristic though! One of the highlights was watching a Champions League Futbol match. Barcelona destroyed Muchen with a score of 4-0! A stadium that holds 97,000 (92,500 in attendance) created, let's just say...a loud atmosphere!

A buddy, Mitch, arrived on Wednesday just to see the Champions game! Spent a few days in Barcelona and rented a vehicle to drive to Portugal. We spent the next night in Valencia. Very beautiful city! Made our way down the coast to Terromolinas for a night on the beach. Cordoba was our next stop followed by Seville. We rolled into the town without the name of our hotel or phone number. Stevie, a friend of Mitch's was meeting us in Seville. She said she was by a casino and a park - no street names. We figured...we would find her! We went down a few wrong streets (one ways) and ran a few red lights. 5 minutes later I looked out my windown and "CASINO" in bright lights! And look, a park on the other side of the street! Sweet luck! We park, walk around to the front and find Stevie sitting on the front steps. AWESOME! Now, to find our hotel. We stop by a random hotel and ask if we had reservations there. No luck...using their wireless, we find out the name of our hotel and head in that general direction. After 20 minutes, we found it!

We met up with Ryan for an afternoon and took in all the Moorish and Roman architecture.

We had to return our rental car so we decided to take the bus across to Portugal. Rented another car once across the border and head along the Algarve coast. Lagos was our first night. Our hotel that we booked was way out of the city but right on the beach. We had a kitchen so decided to make dinner (Stevie did actually) and drink a few bottles of wine. 5 bottles later we were on the beach jumping in the ocean...naked.

The next morning we drove up the west coast to Lisbon. And that's where we are at now...pictures of Porgual and our roadtrip to come!