Here are photos from our trip to Spain, Tunisia, and Egypt, 2019.
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Madrid, Spain
Jillian spent the spring semester here.
Plaza Mayor
The Prado Art Museum
Interesting trees in the Retiro park
The lake in the Retiro
The Crystal Palace
Inside the Crystal Palace
The Serolla Art Museum
Jillian visiting with Juaquin Serolla
A cool bridge over the river
Santa Pau and the Volcanic Mountains, Northeast Spain
Santa Pau is a medieval village in the mountains of northeast Spain.
The view from our hotel room
The old church next door
Inside a volcano
Inside a volcano
Santa Pau (from a local poster).
The streets of Santa Pau
The Salvador Dali museum, Figueres, Spain
La Rambla, Figueres
Island of Mallorca, Spain
Palma, in the west, is the main city, but we stayed in Alcudia, on the eastern shore. It's a beach town, frequented primarily by Germans.
The view from our hotel room
The Mallorca countryside
The Caves of Campanet
The highest peak on Mallorca
The Castle in Palma
The view from the castle
A side street in Palma
The beach outside our hotel in the evening
Barcelona, Spain
A short visit to Barcelona, since we'd all been there before.
Parc Guell
Gaudi's house in Parc Guell
Interesting drinks at Old Fashioned,
an old speakeasy
Plaza Reial
Tunis, Tunisia
The entrance to our hotel
The Bardo museum has many rooms like this
Full size mosaics
A residential street in Carthage (suburban Tunis)
The ruins at Carthage
The Roman amphitheater at Carthage
The village of Sidi Bou Said.
Everything is white and blue.
The Tunis Medina, or Old Town
Tunisian Highway Signs
Cairo and Giza, Egypt
Countryside outside Cairo
The tombs at Saqqara
Monuments at Memphis
The pyramids at Giza
The city of Giza from the pyramids
It was very windy!
The Great Pyramid up close
We saw camels, but didn't ride one
The view from our hotel room. This is Tahrir
square, where the 2011 revolution took place.
The Egyptian Museum
Jillian with Hatshepsut, her favorite Pharaoh
Luxor, Egypt
Luxor is an hour plane ride south of Cairo, and it's where the tombs of many pharoahs, notably Tutankhamen, are buried. We went into three different tombs, but not Tut's.
Farm land outside Luxor
The Colossi of Memnon
The Valley of the Kings, where the tombs are.
The Temple of Hatshepsut
Sunset over the Nile
The Temple of Luxor
The Temple of Karnak
Temple of Karnak
The pool at the Temple of Karnak
Streets of Luxor
A side street
