Jen's Ramblings In Europe: Cities and Towns

Every place I went to was beautiful, but sometimes there were stand out situations. I'm not quite sure what made me like Rome more than Florence or Nice, or Umbria more than all of them. It definitely wasn't the way I thought it was going to be! Anyway, here are a few photos of the cities and towns that I've been through over the last few weeks...

Rome - everywhere you turn in this place there is something amazing to look at. I loved the sky in this shot - which is really what I took the photo of.

Bari Gotic in Barcelona. Sometimes I felt like I'd been transported back 1000 years.

Gaudi of course - in Barcelona. This building was designed to resemble a dragon.

This was the view from my bedroom window in Barcelona.

These are the colours I'll remember Barcelona for.

This bar was very interesting. It was the meeting place of the Catalan resistance against the occupying French in Barcelona and has tunnels that lead from the back. One night the French broke in and hung the Spanish men inside, and the hooks they were hung from are still above the bar.

More Barcelona. I had Sangria one night with a few other travellers and this is what we were watching while we drank and talked.

Rome - the Pantheon.

The Pantheon again.

Umbria - this was the view from my bedroom window in Perugia.

An Etruscan Arch that formed one of the doors through the original city walls in Perugia. They were invaded more than once through this one. Its incredible to think that it has been there since about 400BC.

More Perugia. You can see the old walls in this photo.

Perugia - you can see the main aqueduct in this one - and also the steepness of the streets around the old town.

There was a chocolate festival on in Perugia -yum! Perugia is famous for its chocolate.

Medieval Gardens at the bottom of the old town. It now forms part of one of the Universities.

I want to live here! We went for a walk through the Umbrian hills and ate grapes from the vines, apples from abandoned farm house orchards and the last blackberries of the season.

Florence before sunset. It is a very photogenic city, even if it's rather dirty and non-descript the majority of the time.

The Arno in Florence.

The old city walls of Florence - the gates are still the ancient oak doors covered in hundreds of years of scars. Its strange to watch modern cars take their turn to drive through them. I took this from where I was staying up on the hill.

Again - I took this from where I was staying.
A great place to relax with a drink at happy hour with other travellers.

This is the olive grove we camped in. You can't have hard topped accommodation here because the olive grove is protected. So its tents only!

Pont Vecchio - it used to have Butcher's shops all along it, but one of the Dukes decided that he didn't like the smell of it, so he leased all the shops to Jewellers. There are still there today.

Ok, back to the sign saga. This is the metro in Rome. (Actually the one that crashed a week or so ago.) I don't think I really need to comment on these pictures. Couldn't get more graphic really! I love the one where he's stuck in the door!