Thursday, November 22, 2007

Spain – Part 5 – Contrasts…….







……….one of the great things about traveling is the ups and downs, but these are only great when you look back in hindsight. We struggled in Spain without any language, even feeding ourselves was a bit of a mission. The old tried and true, smiling, pointing and gesticulating was met with a bored shrug! However, we met Alberto, the “marvelous waiter” in one of the hotels we stayed in. Alberto gave us a glass of free champagne, arranged food he knew we would like and gave us a taste of Spain – we loved Alberto!
We also loved the colour pallet of Andalucia – blue, white, ochre, dusty blue green.
The only time we saw olive trees growing amongst green was in this photo, mostly they were growing by the 10000 acres in brown dusty terrain as far as the eye could see against impossibly blue skys.
Thousands of years of incredible history and stories sit alongside graffiti and grunge – see our last hotel! (We didn’t get any sleep…thought we would be knocked out by the dope oozing into our room from the street….then robbed and murdered…you know how the imagination goes wild when you are sleep deprived…drugged…. and it’s the early hours of the morning!!!)……….that’s it for blogging Spain….. back to “Life as a Servant”!!!!........miss you heaps and know that this homesickness will pass…much love xxxx

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