Cathedrals, Castles, Cars & Segovia

Here's the look from our bedroom window if you look to the left. It looks a lit like Seattle's Space Needle... but only like half of it. We still don't know what this building is.



The parking situation here is strange. You probably wouldn't believe it unless you see it for yourself. Everyone parallel parks so close to each other on the streets, that it makes you wonder how they leave. It's seriously 2-3 inches in the front and 2-3 inches in the back differences between the cars. Yet they make it work somehow. Yesterday we actually watched somebody parallel park and it was the most amazing thing we've ever seen. They're good.



Friday we went to Segovia on an excursion with the University. Amelia studied in Segovia for four months in 2004. It was really cool to see all the sites that she had seen in the first 6 months of our relationship. It's a beautiful place. Very traditional with a lot of really old buildings. When we say really old, we mean like 1200's old, and they're still in great shape. Unbelievable. Especially when you think of how the buildings in Wheeling look after 50-100 years downtown.
We took tours of a castle and a cathedral and also had a chance to check out an aquaduct that was a mile long that they still use although cast iron pipes were laid in the original Roman channel. The aquaduct was built at the end of 1st to early 2nd century BC by the Romans during their occupation of the Iberian Peninsula to bring water from the Río Frío (Cold River). Ok, the history lesson is done for the day.


We also went to this cathedral. It is widely considered Europe's last great Gothic cathedral. You were not permitted to take pictures inside, but we did anyway, and now we'll post them on the internet, just for spite...

It took over 600 years to build because they kept running on of finances to finish it.
By-the-way, that guy at the bottom of the picture has a great mullet... he ran out of finances to finish his haircut.

Here are some super secret inside pictures of the Cathedral. (Don't tell!)




Storks on the roof




In the garden










Here are some pictures of the inside and outside of the castle.






















Nick thought this guy looked like the King from Burger King, what do you think?