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we took a train to belem and to cascais, and we thought that you only needed to buy one ticket, the guy told us that it was for both ways. well on the way home, at 7/8 at night when we were super tired after a long day of tourism/beach, the conductor comes by and 2 of us didn't have a second ticket, so we got kicked off the train to buy another ticket and to catch the next one (it only waits at the stop for about 2 mintues so we didnt have time to get back on the same one). it was suchhh an annoyance. but then we got to see the beautiful sunset!!

cute little house/hotel thing in cascais that i want to live in

lisbon

woman singing fado during our dinner. she doesn't look really happy right here, oops. but she was cute.

mas lisboa

BEAUTIFUL sunset. Note the legit portuguese man fishing to the right. yes, he was intentionally photographed.

really yummy pastry in belem. The pastry shop is super famous, and the little pastry thing is famous too, although i never caught the name of it. it's like a crust filled with custard stuff. mmm!

cascais beach!

the tower of Belem! we climbed it! beautiful view, overlooking water

lisboa, portugal

So I went to Lisbon, Portugal with 3 other friends for 3 nights! It was really awesome. Some of the highlights were the Aquarium/Oceanarium, Cascais (a beach), Tower of Belem, listening to fado while eating dinner (traditional portuguese music), going to a karaoke bar (we sadly didn't sing, we just listened), and eating sushi! (ok so it's not very portuguese but i miss it so much!)



at the oceanarium in Lisbon, Portugal! we all wanted to dive with Vasco, of course

being fish. typical

THE HUGEST MONSTER FISH EVER. it can weigh up to 2 tons. it is CRAZY HUGE and it looks so strange. it has 4 flippers, and it uses the ones on top/bottom to swim. the weirdest looking hting ever. called an Ocean Sunfish, google it if you want...really

i found nemo! in his anemene (spelling?? too lazy to look it up)

even. more. barca.

inside gaudi's apartment. and by that i don't mean that he lived there, he just designed it. all the furniture and stuff was from way back in the day!

super cool chimneys!!! that's glass from bottles. same building.

La Sagrada Familia from the top of the Gaudi apartment! it's huge.

More from the celebration trying to get Madrid nominated as the host for the 2016 olympics! we lost :( here's a link to the aerial photos!! CLICK HERE

it's the one that says "corazonada de madrid"!

more barca

This is where they held the Spanish Inquisition. We didn't go inside or anyhthing though.

Another building by Gaudi, of course I forget what it is called. But it was really cool, the balconies represent skulls, the dead people that the dragon (picture below) has killed. There's this legend of some saint dude that slays a dragon to save the princess, i forget which guy it is though sorry. And at the bottom, the little pillar things look like bones. Creepy.

Can you see the dragon-ish shape at the top?

Apartment building build by Gaudi. We got to go inside on a tour of the place, it was really pretty. The cool thing is that evrything that Gaudi did, he was kind of made fun of, people thought he was insane. Now eveyone just thinks it's super cool and that he was a genius. But that's the way it goes. Also, he added this attic thing on the top, made of bricks b/c they're lighter, for the purpose of drying clothes and to insulate the building, so that the top apartment isn't either super hot or super cold depending on the weather.

Gaudi park

Park designed by Gaudi, super famous and such

cool inside

Lookes like a wave

it was pretty. all of this is the same outside park thing

barcelona

from the corazonada de Madrid, where they were trying to become thehost of the 2016 olympics! tons of ppl, it was crazy!

La Sagrada Familia, by Gaudi, construction started wayyy long ago, and it's projected to be finished in 2030...it's amazing though. A church, but it will be the biggest church i think in all of europe after all of the pillar things are built.

Inside la Sagrada Familia, there are 24 columns, each made of a different stone ( I think?) and they are designed to look like trees, so you feel like you're in a forest, and so you feel at home. Gaudi was really into nature.

Beautiful stained glass windows!