Wednesday, 29 December 2010

North Spain Tour - Cuenca

The old city of Cuenca was developed between a gorge and 2 rivers. We stopped here purposely to view the most photographed house in Cuenca, casa colgada or the hanging house, seized the opportunity of the town being passed during our route. This house is among many houses that built on the cliff of the gorge. 

Entrance to Casa Colgada, which is now housed abstract art by many artists.

Casa Colgada

Sunday, 26 December 2010

North Spain Tour - Valencia

It has been a looooong time since I have updated my blog. I am too occupied with my living (studying) schedule, and have no time to write but ample time for travelling. I still owe myself many entries as this blog serve as my travelling journal. Despite some 'misplaced' of pictures, I decided to fill in the blanks against chronology.

So, during winter break, we went exploring North Spain. However our journey starts from Valencia. Valencia is emmm nice but the main attractions which is different from other part of Spain is the City of Arts and Science, which is worth visiting and it will take most of the time there. Other than that, we are used to the rest.

 The city at night

 The 'eye'

 City of Arts and Science

  City of Arts and Science

  City of Arts and Science

 Main Train Station

 Plaza del Toro

 Mercado Central

 Inside Lonja

 Old Cathedral

Torre de Quarts

Friday, 23 July 2010

Den Haag

This entry should be entered long long time ago. I thought I lost the pictures, but in fact it is there, in my external hard disk, never went anywhere. Sigh.

The trip that we made to Den Haag (Dutch)/ The Hague (English) was together with our long tour which started with Italy and ended with Brussels, somewhere during the last spring. Den Haag is what I called as the town of Europe investment centre (we have some informal rule of thumb regarding investment - follow what is Den Haag or Brussels are investing at, then prosperity is at your doorstep) but my husband see it as a doorway to oil and gas expert industry. I agreed with him as most of our family and friends who involved in the industry must have been there many times for training.

The stadthuys (municipal hall) and library

The church

Zara met a friend who was willing to teach her how to skateboarding

The mosque that put us close to tear

The information

A cafe -luxury cafe on top of a designer lot

An entry where you can almost everything with famous signature

Side walk cafes

Physically,  Den Haag reminds me of Vienna. Not because of the architecture, but because most of shops are lining up designers brand, American, British, European, Italy or French from Burberry, Tommy, LV, YSL, you name it. Yet the most touching part of the visit was we found an old mosque which had history of Jewish synagogue. What a beautiful moment as if we were struck by lightning and bolts but standing tall, felt nothing.