so how about some highlights eh?

driving: it's such an odd feeling, after so many years of being able to drive without really thinking, to getting a fright when the windscreen wipers go on instead of the indicator. the hardest part for me wasn't the road, but the car itself... just having all the gadgets opposite, and having to look out the left window. also slightly un-nerving was the 120km/hr highway thing, where some cars were passing us at least at 170km/hr!

countryside: very different from anywhere i've been. a lot of barren rugged hills, very jagged and prominent. incredible variations in wild flowers - combinations that could never be reproduced so perfectly as done by nature herself. compared to all other places i've been to in europe - with the trees in straight lines, and parks bordered by fences - spain's countryside felt far more real and beautiful in that natural reality. interesting to see so much of the land covered by glasshouses for irrigation, covered in olive green material - deemed by us to be due to the salt spray from the ocean.

beaches: gorgeous coastlines once we escaped the built up cities, with an aqua-marine blue ocean. the rocky shorelines were a sight to behold, from high up as we drove around cliff faces, to down on the beach itself.

barcelona: gaudi is incredible! a city i shall definitely return to one day.

overall favourite part? watching the sunrise over the mediterranean, perched on top of a cliff with an old ruin of a fortress behind me and nothing but the ocean infront of me. birds soaring. ocean calmly lapping at the shore. sun rising in elegance. peace.