Madrid to Bilbao via Burgos

Hello again.... I bet you are getting sick and tired of all these short crappy posts... but one day i will go back and do something to make up for it all... here is Eddy...
the puppy (dubiously named as from the back it looks like a cat but from the front, that snout looks like a dog) outside the Guggenheim (spelling?) in Bilbao...

with the actual museum in the background...
more...curves...

Eddy...big big spider...

and then.... we got to the hotel and we had a pool!!!!!


so of course we used it... before dinner...
group shot... and then after dinner...
we ventured out to the random carnival across the road :D...
rigged games...

fairy floss (cotton candy) and hams to win :P...

more self portraits...
and thats about it... now we have left the great hotel and are back in normal average ones without pools...

lots of love and hugz...
D.

P.S. only 3 sleeps left and then a heck of a long plane ride which is already making me feel sick :(

Madrid...

Today we tool a trip out of town to the ancient city of Toledo...
pretty isn't it...

ahhh don't I look angelic... *cough cough* :P...

view from the bus... you can tell because you can see the reflection in the glass...
more views.... I know, you are all screaming at me... this means nothing we are bored already!!!!
Well here is another person that we all know...
plus a few new ones...later there was a palace....
and a few unwanted pictures...

Some turtles in the old train station that is now a botanic garden since the station was bombed a few years back... the new station is behind...

and someone elses turn for a few unwanted pick... don't you just love that finger... thats all for now though...

lots of love and hugz
D.

Barcelona to madrid

Now, we are going to play a game... what do you think we spent most of today doing??? Yup we had a looooong bus ride...


Now, for me personally, I don't mind the bus... I've developed this amazing ability to fall asleep almost instantaneously when the bus engine starts... and this morning I needed sleep... 4 hours a night just doesn't do it for me.


Some of the passengers are going a little bonkers though and today was the longest trip so far, lasting about 10 hours all up (we now all have 'special jobs' and Eddy and I are the office administrators and sleeping specialists)...


The new hotel room is great though...


we have a bath, a shower, a sex shower (not that I need one, it has 2 shower heads) and lots of room :D :D :D...


but before and after dinner we had a bit of sight seeing Plaza Mayor and a garden that I can't remember the name of... its beautiful... once again... and I think that I am starting to become numb to the beauty, which is unfortunate, because I have had nothing else to compare to in about 3 weeks!!!

(Eddy taking a photo I hadn't noticed...)

I know I know, you all thinking poor poor Darcy, stop complaining and put up some more pictures already...


Okay. Fine.

(Oh your there... better smile for once)

Pictures...


lots of love and hugz
D.

(random artsy shot that I had some fun with...)
P.S. Today, due in part to the lack of sleep I think... I had my first bout of homesickness... :( but don't worry about me, I'm okay now... its the danger of having too much time to think on the bus...

PPS sorry about no posts this week, I got a little behind... but I think there about 5 posts today so keep reading on...

Barcelona

Our introduction to Barcelona from our tour guide...

I have never had a tour group that comes to Barcelona in which no one has left without getting something stolen...

hmmm... what a great introduction...

It was a lovely city though...

but my Spanish is apparently quite hilarious...

all these pics in gardens and of houses that look like they belong in a fairy tale are by the architect Galdi (spelling?) and I must say - If he was still alive I'd want to make him design my place...

or at least live in one of the places he designed...

anyway nothing bad happened to me in the end...

this is when Eddy got ahold of Snappy for a little while... its me shopping...

more shopping...

OOOOO...!!! 21st birthdays are Important events on the tour bus...

actually any excuse for a cake is...

and thats about it for the day...
Lots of love and hugz
D.

P.S. We now hold the tittle of the first group to leave with all of our stuff... woot!!! :D I love breaking with tradition

Carcassone to barcelona

OK I'm getting tired so I'll make this on short...
We started the day witha tour of a castle/fort thing...
you can tell I was paying a lot of attention to the history lesson this morning can't you...
but I enjoyed it none the less...
I always enjoy these places...
partitally because I'm pretty sure there is some part of me that wants to have lived in the times when they were built and used...

only the romanticized versions though... and of course I would be a princess or some other high ranking female that didn't have to do much... but would then also not have to bow down to the men in the family, so I'm not sure how that would work...And finally once we reached Barcelona, here we are at dinner before the Flamenco dancing (no we didn't participate, it was a perfoemance this time)...

Lots of love and hugz
D.