05 - Seville, Cardoba and back to Seville

The Spanish countryside is dotted with these large Bulls... makes for interesting viewing and photographs... this one was on the way from Estepona to Seville


In Seville - you have to mix with the right crowd...


liquor induced genialty...


architecture in Seville....


The view from out hotel room...


This old lady was selling snails...(random finger not for sale!)


More of the Seville Cathedral...


by know.. you should have expected it...


and from the other side... this is supposedly the largest on the Iberian Peninsula..


Closeup of the front - gothic architecture at its finest...


Inside the Alcazar... yet another Moorish fortress/palace... this one got a significant amount of use from the subsequent catholic kings - this was where Columbus was granted his ships, where all the conquistadors were commanded from..


And inside.. more arches and courtyards and fountains, pools...


It never gets old...


The ladies' courtyard...


For the king who wanted the sky in his bedroom... beautiful plane tessalation work..


...its just keeps coming...


I know you were waiting for it...:)


The summer house!


Down below...


Hang time.. waiting for the cathedral to open...


Arab waterwheel in Cordoba...The cathedral in Seville didnt open...(religious function) so we set out to Cordoba..


Outside the Mezquita...


The Mezquitea.. initially a mosque.. and now a cathedral - typical of Spanish history.. but beautiful nevertheless


The famous arches....


hypnotic...


Was that the same picture ??


Feel like a mosque yet?


and yet its not... I thought it was like Gazpacho... a million different influences added on top of each other.. what would it have been like unaltered ?


and on the outside...


The fortress next door..


bulls... Toro...


The impound lot.. when our car got towed... !


The last day... roaming the streets of Seville...

That was it... after that we drove to Madrid, got terribly lost, got pulled over for a drug inspection.. and almost all of us barely made our flights... !