yeah and i'm finally back from the 10 days spain and portugal trip! it was a trip with harrowing experiences and relaxing moments. lets start on spain first. it's a country with loads of sight-seeing to do. from madrid to valencia and finally to barcelona. we had the chance to watch a bull fighting competition in madrid and also the first attas paella meal which is really satisfying! bull fighting is too cruel i feel cos they stab the bull like nobody's business and u could see the bull panting heavily and blood spurting from the back. i couldn't bring myself to take those photos.


paella!


the bullfight!

and when we were in valencia, we visited this arts and science place and visited the world's largest aquarium. and it's feels very electrifying to look at the aquatic ecosystem cos there are just so so many species and definitely these are not the only ones present on earth. makes 1 feel the wonders of mother nature. seriously cool!


saw xunyu, ivy, racheru, junkai and weiliang.


the underwater world.



then as we moved on to barcelona, gives us this feeling that the ppl there are more complex. cos we have so many pickpockets in crowded trains clad in business suits and carry laptops. wee hon was targetted twice but luckily he saw them eyeing his wallet and he din give them any chance. and we visitted the corn-like church structure there which is still under construction after like 100 years. and the best tour was down to montserrat where nature blew us off. cos the view up there is really magnificent and majestic. and so we moved on to portugal, and got mugged by this stupid robber. luckily no1 was injured and nothing was lost. he tried to snatch our wallets but to no avail. i manged to push him away, haha we're strong man~ but well that was a harrowing experience.


met ant and shermaine at barcelona.


and this is montserrat!

so on to portugal and yeah porto was the first city we went to. very old, very slow and very relaxing. it's quite small but the roads are uphill and downhill and some are really steep. we kept making fun of the old ppl there that they used shun po to move around. very fast! and kept taking shun po videos of the ah ma and ah pek to entertain ourselves. u can have a whole bus of ah ma and ah pek. yeah but the best part of porto was sitting by the huge river or sea, having lunch while basking in the sun! and our lunch there was super good! each had 1 bottle of wine, salad, main course which is huge, dessert pudding and coffee for just 15 euros. gosh! and apart from eating, we found a pull and bear outlet which is super duper cheap! half the price of everything compared to sg.


at porto!


lunching by the sea~

yeah, so finally we went to lisbon and it's another slow city though the capital. and we toured slowly and relaxingly. portugal isn't a really amazing country, BUT it's very different from many other cities cos pace of life is much slower and yeah u get to really relax. and eating in the sun by the river was the best part. the beach in lisbon was sunny, clean and pretty. the part i really enjoyed. and of course, the portuguese egg tarts which we bought from this super famous shop in lisbon.


beef on stone!


and the beautiful beach in lisbon!