Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Pictures for Sunday - Heat and Ice


Delightful houses in the old part of Oviedo.  Glass covered balconies are common in Northern Spain on account of the (relatively) cool and wet weather.  We managed to be there for a heat wave early last week, when a blast of dry wind came up from the Sahara.  By the end of the week the heat wave had reached Southern England, so temperatures at home were higher than where we were in Spain.


We could have gone to the pictures to cool off in the air conditioning, but coming back outside might have been a bit of a shocker.

Sunday, 19 June 2016

A Picture for Sunday - Seagull


Very handsome and very irritating.  Gulls make such a dreadful racket.  This one was lording it on the walls of the castle above Alicante.

Sunday, 15 May 2016

A Picture for Sunday - Balconies in Alicante


How I would love to be able to grow geraniums like these and have them blooming outdoors in May.

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Sunday, 3 April 2016

A Picture for Sunday - Number 8


Regular and uncomplicated - this house front (on a little square near the city walls in Salamanca) could easily be adapted as a design for a picture quilt.

Sunday, 26 July 2015

A Picture for Sunday - St. James


The statue of St. James above the high altar in the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.

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Sunday, 19 July 2015

A Picture for Sunday - Art Nouveau Door


The entrance to the Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Salamanca, a great place to spend a couple of hours on a hot afternoon.  It has an immense collection of dolls, but I was totally transfixed by the glass.

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Sunday, 5 July 2015

A Picture for Sunday - Avila


Because today is my birthday, here is my favourite picture taken on my recent trip to Spain - a view from just outside the city walls of Avila as the sun was going down. 

Sunday, 28 June 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - Steely Skies over Avila


Just back from a fortnight in Spain and Portugal with my daughter - our second stop was Avila, where we were treated to some dramatic light in the evening.

Sunday, 21 June 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - Shop Window


A dummy in the window of a children's clothes shop in Santiago de Compostela.

Sunday, 10 May 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - A Face in Wood


A carving on a massive church door in Santiago de Compostela.

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Sunday, 3 May 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - A Bishop in Bronze


A memorial to a Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, high up on a wall overlooking the fountain shown in last Sunday's photo.

Bienvenida a ZHOBEYDA!

Sunday, 26 April 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - A Horse in Granite


A beautiful fountain in a square outside one of the side entrances to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela.

I went for a six day trip to Santiago last week with my brother.  It is a city built of granite, massive and forbidding under grey skies, but when the sun comes out the stone absorbs the heat and reflects the light in such a way that it feels like a different city.

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Sunday, 11 January 2015

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - Roofscape


The chimneys are fascinating - they have their own little tiled roofs.

This photo was taken from a church tower, with a fantastic view whichever way you look.

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Sunday, 21 December 2014

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - Perched on a Crag


An 11th century church, Moorish ramparts, vultures circling overhead...  Alquézar in Aragon.

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Sunday, 30 November 2014

Sunday, 16 November 2014

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - A Turquoise Lake


This is a glimpse of a corner of an enormous reservoir in the valley of the Rio Cinca in Aragon.  The rivers flowing down from the Pyrenees have the most astonishingly clear turquoise water.

Sunday, 9 November 2014

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - Flowers outside a Window


Now that the whole world has turned grey here, this photo I took in Spain in September is an absolute tonic.

Sunday, 2 November 2014

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