Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Moscow

Train
Where the children play
Victory day fireworks from the 16th floor of the Coca Cola building
Me and Anna
Church wall
Forest
Catherine the Great's Castle
Apple orchard
Tsar's summer house
The Kremlin
View from the car
After dinner and a lot of vodka

The spread

My lovely friends and amazing guides!

Behemoth!
Going up the stairs to the apartment there are quotes and whatnot. This one is the first line of the second part of the book where the reader meets Margarita...

Bulgakov's apartment!!! This is where he wrote The Master and Margarita, and the apartment that the Devil overtakes and lives in. The characters in the book are apparently based on the people who were living around Bulgakov in this apartment building.
Kremlin wall

View from the Moscow river
Tribute to a famous Russian singer whose name I forget...

Near Red Square

St. Basil's Basilica

Russian Orthodox Church

Me and Karl Marx

Rocket launchers!
Waiting for the parade to start

Home base

Sunday, May 2, 2010

La Feria de Abril

!!!
Paella!
A view from the top.

Gente

ROAD TRIP!... yes these images are a little late...Barcelona-Madrid-San Sebastian-Pamplona-Barcelona.

Us and our amazing red mini.



One of my favorite places...
Typical breakfast.


San Sebastian (claro)
It was very windy.
We stumbled across this beautiful town on our way to San Sebastian and explored a bit.
Wine, and more wine.
I don't think this needs an explanation...
Botanical Garden
Madrid!


Wind Farm, and the notorious Torro. After seeing about 3 of these along the way we decided to keep a tally of how many we saw... 13 total. Only in Spain.