The Euro tour continues... now it's Spain's turn on stage. My time in Spain was sandwiched between my travels in Mali and Sri Lanka. It was the last developed country I was in before I arrived in Hong Kong several months later. At this point in my travels I had been on the road for 2 months. Looking at the photos, I'm pretty sure I had hit a wall. Taking pictures every single day for a couple months was something I was not accustomed to and I think I was getting burned out. On top of that, after visiting wild places like Mali, Morocco and Egypt, where nearly every day elicits feelings of culture shock, being in Spain with its orderliness and rules felt a little tame. I was more interested in eating the food, drinking the beer and sleeping in mosquito free rooms than documenting the culture. I took about 30 pictures in Madrid...fail.
I visited four cities, Cordoba, Seville, Grenada and Madrid. I'd really like to get back to Madrid. I know I only saw a little bit of what the city has to offer. Much of the city felt pretty quiet, I'm not sure if this was due to the time of year or maybe the economy, but it definitely wasn't bustling. Seville is beautiful. I got really lost in the city, I mean lost in space lost. Cordoba is also very pretty, I'm not sure I saw a local while I was there. Elderly tourists everywhere. I could spend a lot more time in Grenada, the famous Alhambra is pretty magnificent. However some of the uniqueness was lost having been in Morocco and seeing ornate riads and cities in the same and greater style.
One of the hotels I stayed in spilled bleach on nearly every article of clothing I had given them to wash. That meant 2 more months on the road wearing shirts and pants with orange splotches on them
Some Siesta tunes...
*edit - youtube blocked the last video from being embeded. If this one gets blocked you'll just have to play the music in a separate tab.
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It's been a slow start but things will start picking up, London is on deck. I just need to re-edit my black and white w/ red bus shots so I don't get sued.