From Iberia with Love 2019

We woke up and decided to spend a couple more hours wandering Evora. We checked out the skull church, but after our expedition in Czech, this one was pretty underwhelming. You may call us Bone Church snobs, apparently. It was neat because it had a full skeleton unlike the other, but it was a small room within the church, and just a mosaic of skulls along the wall vs the one in Czech being a giant church with all sorts of crests, shrines, sculptures, and chandeliers all made out of skulls.  We grabbed some more pastries from the same cafe...

We were nervous staying in a little hostel/hotel with Babes in fear of her crying and keeping others awake (vs having our own apartment) but she was such a trooper! We got out at a decent hour, grabbed some breakfast pastries and hit the road. We had one stop to break up the drive to where we were staying the night next, and it was the Sao Domingo Mines, a ghosttown of what once was one of the biggest mines in the country.  Good news: it was really cool! The ground was still so rich with minerals it was a...

Justin be crazy, yo, and insisted on getting up for sunrise to grab the pictures he didn't get at sunset due to the cloud coverage. I, however, between not wanting to wake Chubz, and knowing I need as much sleep as I can possibly get to survive each day scoffed and rolled over. Clouds were even worse this morning than they were the night before, though. Justin spent a long time setting everything up, a longer time waiting for the sun to break through the clouds, and just as he gave up on waiting and started to pack up all his...

We rushed out the door the following morning since we read that aside from a 2.5 hour drive to Gibraltar, the customs line to get into the country could take 1.5 hours.LOL.We got there in the specified 2.5 hours, but they didn't even take our passports, let alone search or even so much as glance at us while the guards were leaning against a car chatting. The drive onto the peninsula required to cross the Gibraltar airport runway which we later learned shuts down 3 times a day for 25 minutes each, affecting traffic like crazy. We checked in to our...

There was a part of seville we hadn't explored yet, so we wandered in that direction the following morning. We climbed a tower or two for the views, visited a small museum to read up on Seville's history and hadn't actually realized just how old this city was, or that it was practically the first city in Spain and used to be the capital.  We then had tickets to the Seville Cathedral, the largest and one of the oldest cathedrals in the world. Fun fact: Christopher Columbus' tomb is inside the cathedral. Well, allegedly, it could potentially be his brother......