Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

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Honeymoon in Spain I (August 2005)

Since Jill's travels in the past had been pretty much exclusively to places where I had not been before (and therefore the other way around as well), we had to look a bit for somewhere to go for our honeymoon. Southern Spain was a good choice, though, since neither of us had been there, there's always good weather, and it's got a bit of history to see as well.

So, here we are: Jill and me (on an occasion to wear a funny beard for once), and the little vehicle that took us around the country (smaller than anything you probably can get here in the U.S.; its name is "Ford Ka" — so small they don't even need the "r" in "car"...)

The first part of our trip was to the region around Malaga and Granada. Here's one of the cities we saw on our way:

This is an area that still has lots of castles from the early medieval times it was settled by Muslims. These being significantly more developed and civilized people than what the rest of Europe had to offer at the time, their castles are just fantastic. In particular, the place everyone, us including, wants to see is the Alhambra in Granada. This is it from the outside (the newer part on the left, the older one from which only the foundations remain on the right):

It gets better on the inside, which is incredibly richly decorated (I wished I could read Arabic to read what all those inscriptions mean):

From Granada, we drove back to Malaga where we spent one more day. The arena on the left hosts bull fights and there was even one on. We pondered the idea of seeing it, though with mixed feelings about the fact that the bull is usually killed; the fight was sold out, though, so that we didn't have to make a decision.