One of the most beautiful cities in the world - Barcelona

More pictures from my summer in Europe! We spent about four days in Barcelona - and loved every minute of it. Below is just a random collection of pictures from around the city

the market


Inside the Catedral Basilica de Barcelona

The below are from Park Guell by Antonio Gaudi


Isn't it beautiful?

A view of the entrance, the dragon fountain that is at the entrance to Guell park


The beautiful mosaic ceiling of the pavilion

A view of the city from the park
Read more about the park here.


Coming up soon I'll be featuring pics from Gaudi's houses, and the La Sagrada Familia!

Hope you enjoy

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Two amazing Spanish cities - Bilbao and San Sebastian

More pics from my summer in Europe! I need to pick up the pace a bit as I'm still not through the first country we saw. So today I'm showing you two cities - Bilbao, the capital of Basque Country and home to the famous Guggenheim, and San Sebastian, a resort like city with a great beach - especially for a city!

First, Bilbao -

The iconic Guggenheim

Sweetums and I under a sculpture outside the Guggenheim

Koons's adorable "Puppy" in front of the Guggenheim

We got to Bilbao late in the afternoon, so unfortunately we don't have too many photos

Now - San Sebastian





The above photos are all from a hill you hike to the top of. It has an old fort that offers great city views.

From the beach side

On the beach - which was so clean and pretty for being in a city.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Pictures from my summer in Europe - the gorgeous lakes of Picos de Europa

If you love animals you'll love these photos! These photos are from the Asturias region in Spain; the Covadonga glacial lakes: Enol and La Ercina. Other than the breath taking views, what also made it for me were the adorable sheep and cows meandering around the mountains. All through the paths you could hear the cowbells ringing!




There was actually an elderly woman standing in the doorway of this cottage and Chris chatted with her for a few minutes about the area.


the babies were soooooo cute.

Me and my sweetie.

Hanging out with a local.


The drive up to the lakes was windy and often involved yielding to the herds of sheep and cows.


A typical Asturias style dwelling.


Where the Picos are located

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If you love a beautiful beach you'll love this post

More pictures from my Europe trip! These are still from our first week in Galicia, Spain.
The first few are from Santiago de Compostela, famous for it's lichen covered cathedral and the hordes of pilgrims that arrive to the site via the Way of Saint James.

You can see a bigger version of each image just by clicking on them.

The amazing cathedral is the main attraction of Santiago de Compostela.

I hadn't ever seen a cathedral so covered in moss and lichen, it made the building even more interesting and steeped in history.

The other side of the cathedral.

The interior of the Cathedral. The interior wasn't any different than most Roman Catholic interiors of the time. What's really cool is the censer - see it hanging from the rope? It's now only brought out for high days - but one of it's original uses was to help mask the smell from hundreds of unwashed pilgrims. It's the largest of it's kind in the world.


An entrance to a charming garden cafe where we enjoyed a cafe con leche after touring the cathedral.

This map shows Santiago de Compostela on the coast, and the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James)
Read more about Santiago de Compostela and the Way of Saint James.
map via World Nomads

Now for those gorgeous beaches! On our way from Santiago de Compostela to Oveido to drop off our rental car, we stopped by some of the most beautiful, remote beaches in the country. They were simply gorgeous. See for yourself -


Can you imagine living in that house at the bottom right?

Beautiful beach two -

Isn't it stunning?

You can tell how off the beaten path this is just by looking at the "Vehicle Exit" sign.




Looking at pictures from this beach always makes me think of Maxfield Parrish's "Ecstasy"
via Print Mag

Thanks to my sweetums for taking all these gorgeous pictures

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More Pictures from my summer in Europe!

To help you over hump day, I thought I'd share some images from my very awesome summer backpacking around Europe for 9 weeks. These are all from the first week of our trip, where we rented a car and drove around the northwest region of Spain, Galicia.



We drove around Galicia on this day stopping at little coastal towns that were recommended to us.




The four images above are from a beautiful estuary called, Ría de Arousa.

The five images below are just one reason it's a good idea to rent a car and drive around the countryside if you're able to. We ended up driving past a couple of little vineyards and drove down side streets to get a better look. It was so pretty- images don't do it justice.








Finally we made it to our destination city of the day, Pontevedra. Unfortunately we got there in the evening, and that meant not a whole lot of time to take photos. This also ended up being one of our favorite medieval towns in all of Europe, so hopefully one day we'll make it back so we can explore more. Sidenote: A cafe in Pontevedra served the best tortilla in Spain the Chris and I have ever tasted!






all images property of my boyfriend, Chris :)

Since we didn't have much daylight to snap photos, I was naughty and grabbed some photos from another site so you can get a better sense of how amazing this town is.



images property of Jorge Tutor

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