Friday, January 16, 2009

Last day in Uppsala/Stockholm/Naturreservat














Sundry around town






More nature reserve.










Dragon fruit.
Uppsala/Gamla Uppsala/Naturreservat










Monday, January 5, 2009

spain 1
Toro








Madrid





Spain 2

Outside of Isabel's University, the superior technical school of architecture.




En El Retiro - we took a nice walk through the Retiro, Madrid's significantly prettier Central Park, even when under a grey winter sky.

I had remembered this statue from four years ago and had wanted to revisit it - we were lucky to run into it again out of the blue.

VIPS! All this rambling in the Retiro was really an excuse to go the the greatest (/worst) restaurant on the planet, VIPS! This was an old haunt of mine, which Caity, Kristin and I had inhabited on several delicious, pancake related missions.


Plaza de España, Don Quixote Statue


The Madrid lights




Cibeles lit


Metropolis Building


Alcalá


New Years Dinner with the family




The Spaniards eat twelve grapes at midnight, one for each sounding of the midnight bells.


Tonterías


Papá and Luis!!