Travelling Fine: Medieval

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Thursday, 29 November 2007

Friday, 9 November 2007

Well as you can see we had another glorious day in Barcelona. This the start of the castle/mountain hill thing where all the olympic buildings were built.

We didn't go in this building though.

Up about 5 escalators up the hill and we are nearly outside that building in the first photo. It was really deceptive how far up it was.

Chris wasn't feeling too good, and he couldn't manage the hill, so we made for the cable cars up the mountain. Ok misstranslation from Spainish methinks as this is the cable car. Looks more like gondolas to me.

The view was awesome (pictures later coming down the mountain)

The castle up the top was a military museum (didn't know that till we got there.)

A rather large helm

A funny little Spanish curator took this for us.

As you can see the view from the top was awesome!!!!

This was the view coming down the "cable car"

Chris by now was feeling reeeeeally bad so i took him to a chemist (thank god for people who speak english) and tucked him up in bed with some grapes, bread and water.

(don't worry he just feels sick and has a temperature which has now kind of gone with some strong paracetamol.)

I tried to get tomato soup but noone in the supermarket spoke English and try as i might i couldn't get accross the difference between ketchup, salsa, tomato juice and tomato soup. So he had to deal with pumpkin.

anyway we are off to Madrid at 9:00am tomorrow so i can't gaurentee when i will next have the internet. AJ Madrid HostelAddress: C/Mejia Lequerica, 21 ,Madrid 28004, Spain

byyyyyyeeeeeeeeee

Monday, 5 November 2007

Drive from Yorkshire to Bath - Warwick Castle

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Why back to Germany...

Well in answer to a question from mum "Why back to Germany"

there are lots of answers.

1) it was only 2 hours away by train

2) it cost 80 euro for the both of us both ways

3) Cologne cathedral is the tallest (and in my opinon the best in Europe)

4)"i felt like it"

5) Beer

6) It's another place that we have been scratched off the list

Today we went to a small museum of Cologne. It was tiny and only 2 euro. My hopes were not high. we got in and it was "ok" but not brilliant. Until i saw the most fascinating medieval collection i have seen so far i think. everyone has armor and swords and tapestries and so on, but none have had a collection of items taken off a condemed Patrician in 1389! Yes 1389. Pretty good year. All the items were taken and stored and forgotten about. they are just normal items. like a needle case, about 10 little tiny bags that fell off his belt. Folding spoon in a case, another case, a belt and blah blah blah.... The bags were the biggest eye opener yet. They were very well preserved, one made out of soft leather, but it had little pockets sewn all over it. Another had a cover for the bag made out of mesh!! It also had little ROUND seed pearls the size of normal beads crossing over the seam lines around the two side seams. it was the size of a match box. (see photos below)

As you can see this was pretty cool.

But back to normallity!!

we went out for dinner last night to a really nice place that was about 300 years old.
as you can see they had beer at this place!! we had a really delicious meal of beef covered in a balsamic vinegar and herb sauce with red cabbage and potato dumplings and salad.