rob was here.

Well, I've returned from europe after a successful week of work over in the land of Spain. It was quite an experience both professionally and personally, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to do something like that. I took my camera along and managed to see a few sights throughout the week, and pertake in the espanol culture (including a soup of pig-ears and beans which wasn't that great, and a set of pig-ribs cooked on an open fire pit which were pretty awesome).. I'll attempt to walk you through some of the pictures I took.

Ah.

the first night we arrived at the hotel in Madrid in the evening and it began to snow. A lot of the spanish people were amazed and apparently this doesn't happen very often (maybe a few days of the year if at all)... I took this opportunity to hit the streets up (which were alarmingly empty, I didn't find anyone out walking around, except for at bus-stops)











I got up early the next morning and did another walk before work. Here's an interesting picture: a palm-ish sort of tree still covered in snow from the night before.



Day 3, we again got up super early to make use of our off hours and we took the train to the centre of Madrid for some good ol' fashioned walkin' and gawkin'.







These next pictures are actually taken about an hour outside of Madrid, in the city/province of Segovia. We stopped there on route to Vigo/Marín where we would continue work. It was pretty amazing, lots of churches, cathedrals, and of course, the famous roman aqueducts.



the aqueducts:







There were many other interesting sights at which I didn't have my camera with me.. Mostly around the town of Marín in the region of Galicia. That region was much warmer, with such sights as hills full of orange and lemon trees in season, vinyards, and the city itself was quite beautiful nestled on the banks around a tranquil land-locked bay. Truely a good time.