Granada

We spent the last 2 days of our honeymoon in Granada.

Granada is a charming smaller town with narrow streets



The Alhambra is looming above us



Our hotel in Granada was the Casa Morisca and we had a nice view from our room



Standing in line for a nice map of Granada



There were tons of scooters in Granada, even in front of the judicial building



Time for a relaxing brunch



Amy is making sure that we won't get lost



Another cute little street



The steep hike up to the Alhambra



The reward is a great view



More beautiful gardens



Looking down on the path where we came up



The castle part is quite massive



Honey moon indeed :-)



Beautiful details in the old palace



More details



Don't do that!



More beautiful gardens



We had nice breakfast here the last morning



On a shopping mission



Street vendors without permits are always ready to bolt should authorities arrive



We laughed about this sign



But when the taxi later took us through there and scraped both mirrors we know the warning was no joke. (the images is shot through the back window as we just left the super narrow tight spot)



The trip is over, but the honeymoon isn't.

Sevilla

From Lisbon we traveled to Sevilla, Spain via a mellow night train and stayed there for 2 days and nights.

On our way to the train



Aren't those bunk beds cute



Our hotel in Sevilla was the Vincci La Rabida



Cheers



Oh so fine



Interesting architecture



More nice architecture



We were very excited about the Cathedral and the Giralda



The Cathedral is truly amazing and enormous in size



Beautiful details



Christopher Columbus is apparently laid to rest here



Bling, bling



Looking down from the Giralda



Looking up the Giralda



We also visited the Hospital de los Venerables



Later in the day we noticed this unique basketball came



At the waterfront of Sevilla



The next morning we saw the famed Alcazar



Beautiful ornate details



Alcazar has some very beautiful gardens



Some of the Alcazar buildings date back to the 10th century



We had breakfast here a couple times

Lisbon / Lisboa

We flew from Barcelona, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal and stayed there for 3 days

We stayed at the very nice Sofitel Lisboa hotel (quite possibly the nicest hotel during the whole trip)



The Praca de Comercio is in the heart of downtown Lisbon



On our first stroll we stumbled upon the very beautiful Se Cathedral



Se Cathedral dates back to 1147 and was built on the site of the Moor's main mosque



We really liked the beautiful organ



After Se Cathedral we hiked up towards Castelo de Sao George



We noticed a very beautiful rooftop garden and were inspired for our home



This is the impressive Castelo de Sao George



On the grounds near the castle they were setting up for a big party



Since we were not invited to the party we stopped at a cool roof top bar



That night we met a bunch of triathlon friends at a nice vegeterian restaurant called green pepper



The next day we came past this very nicely designed bull fighting arena



This bridge connects Lisboa over the Rio Tejo



The Tower of Belem used to be a defensive outpost for Lisbon



The Maritime Museum of Lisbon is housed in a very cool building



We also visited the botanic gardens



I had to do a silly touristy picture



We ran across a few peacocks and they were beautiful and quite loud



That afternoon we went to check out the modern art museum of Lisbon



Amy gave some money to this street performer with the cute little dog



We took the Elevator de Santa Justa and got to see a great view of Lisbon



Amy was amazed by this superbly clean public restroom



There is lots of great shopping in Lisbon



The Tram 28 is a quite well known Lisbon feature



My friend Sergio Marques owns Lusobike with his partner Julio



Here I am with Sedi, Helder and daughter Ines and Sergio



Amy at a great vista near Cascais (Helder and Ines were great tour guides)



This area is called hole of inferno



One nice beach in Cascais with small fishing boats in the background



The eastern most point of continental Europe is Cabo de Roca in Portugal



Just in case you don't believe us :-)



A nice view from Cabo di Roca, but it was very windy



Sintra is a cute little town in the mountains



We had some great pastries in Sintra