My lifelong dream was to go to Spain I am not really sure why, but I felt completely at home there. Fulfilling my dream to go to Granada and visit the Alhambra. Travelling from Barcelona to Granada to Madrid and Toledo and flying out to England and the next leg of the journey.
The Cafe culture on Spain is wonderful. I can honestly way the experience of eating out on streets of Spain was amazingly liberating. As a woman venturing out aloneI felt part of the scene every time.
Happy to wander the back streets to find what is not seen.
The Sierra Nevada Mountain range is the backbone of Spain and is a water shed for water informing crops and rainfall.
Carved doorways and architectural features quite common in the streets of Barcelona.
Beyond human scale the entrance takes us to an elaborate flight of fancy of a creative genius.
Inside the Basilica of Sagrada of the Familia 'we arrive where we started and know the place for the first time'. TS Elliott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
Illuminating rainbows colours of light and the magnitude of the vast space illuminates our souls.
I love the symmetry of the palm line promenade and the stone balls with the thinking figure. The thinking figure is a question mark and the row of figures in distance is the future possibilities depending on the answer to the question.
Verdant green seem to hang suspended from the mighty sandstone battlements of the Alhambra intensifying the grandeur of the architecture beyond.
Antoni Gaudi, died in 1926 when the catherdral was not complete. It was started in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
The fascinating city of Granada with its geographical location intrigue by many cultures. They came they conquered, they stayed.
Strategically is at the end of a narrow valley making it easily captured and history has shown that all cultures have taken possession through its past.
On the way to the town centre long Cuesta del Rey Chico from the Alhambra Palace the 'every day 'washing is a beautiful reality against the white washed walls of this ancient city.
Ingenious engineering hydraulic pumping system diverts the Darro River water to to the Generallife Gardens of the Alhambra it run sfreely in aqueducts and drains down the mountain side through the Alhambra Gardens. Water can be heard everywhere.
As water cools the weary travel and feeds the Gardens to the Alhambra Palace.
Along terraces across the hillside are the the Generallife Gardens. A maze of levels make it mesmerising and hard to take in the complex system of gardens and terraces.
Spaniards love getting together in public places and celebrating life and here in Madrid it was especially apparent. I loved it.
It was a lovely fay in Toledo, the air was so alive with holiday spirit. The river running below the city high on the hill above. Shoppers going about and I visited El Greco's house.
Hilltop architecture perched towering in Toledo
Hot and sunny day to walk and enjoy the countryside on the approach to Toledo.
