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  Cuenca and Environs
 
2006-03-27

We woke up an decided to go into Cuenca to get some breakfast (a typical spanish breakfast of coffee and bread costs about 6€ for the two of us in the city, or 25€ at the parador). We then wandered around to see what was up with the city.

The ancient part of the town has many of the old and ancient buildings preserved, as well as a few schools up there too. Tragically, there's really nothing else. All of the shops and restaurants, apart from a couple of touristy places, are well away at the bottom of the hill.

So, we wandered for a few hours, and then hopped in the car to explore the parts of the countryside, including an enchanted park, and a canyon / gorge that were supposed to be excerrent.

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The views from our hotel room were pretty sweet.
Fortunately, there's a little bridge to get to the old town.
This parador had a very grand feel to it and looked like a cool place to hang and read a book.
This tree was kinda cool. Samantha kicked it and ...
Heading towards the town.
The bridge was creepy high, but stable and fine.
The canyon below the town was quite deep.
These are known as the hanging houses. One is a museum and the other a restaurant.
With very little traffic and much going on here, the streets are narrow and cool.
This is the main church in town, which also charges enough for admission that we decided not to bother.
This is the Plaza Mayor. There are a few museums and things hanging off here, but being Monday, they were all closed.
University kids hanging out on a break.
Looking down on the town from above.
The parador as seen from above.
There is actually a big church or something right next to the parador.
Hey! It's our Spanish friend Jésus!
Here's a cute kitty cat chasing after a butterfly. It was having a ball.
Here's an orange girl.
Looking down into the city from the northernmost gate.
Furry kitty!
This is all that remains of an ancient Moorish castle. You can climb up it, on days when it's open, which was certainly not today. *sigh*.
I don't know why I love this photo.
This kept freaking me out -- I couldn't shake the feeling that there was somebody really there looking at me. Somebody HUGE AND OVERSIZED.
Closeup of the hanging hooos.
We hopped in the car and got a little lost for a while, eventually finding our way back to some towns that we recognised on the map.
The roads and scenery are pretty cool here.
Cool road in the distance. Or maybe they're train tracks. Hard to say.
These are the gargantas (gorge). Cool.
You can get out and check it all out, which is worth the trip.
We were seriously running out of space on our digital camera memory cards here, which was bad. However, this was the penultimate day in Spain, so we'd manage.
Here's where we had an awesome lunch for 30€ for the two of us (including a bottle of mighty fine wine). Awesome. We pretty much just skipped the usual evening tapas and had a relaxing time reading in the evening. Sweeet!
 
 
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