My Travel Partner: Lurgs, aka, Amy Lee!

My Travel Partner: Lurgs, aka, Amy Lee!
En route to hotel in Dorgali, Sardegna

2 Asian Sisters Roaming in Europe

Welcome to my Travel Blog...post vacay...with uploaded pics.!

On July 10, 2011, Amy & I boarded Air Transat to Rome, Italy where we would begin a month long journey through Sardinia and Northern Spain.

Throughout the blog, you'll find postings of my favourite moments, photos & some interesting and fun postings...Enjoy!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Bella


Throughout my month long travels, I took over a thousand shots often mesmerized by the moments and completely captured by the beauty of the landscape, people and food!









Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Bilbao, Spain





In the Spanish city of Bilbao, my only wish was to see the Guggenheim Museum. Little did I know that I would be pleasantly delighted by its food offerings pinxtos, its neat aquarium and just exploring...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

The Moments

Approaching the first grotto...



The moments were many on this trip & many of the moments were grand... BUT, one particular one that I want to share here is when we were in Alghero, Sardegna...we took a boat out for the day and headed to Capo Caccia, to swim, hit the beach & visit a couple of grottoes. We went into the first grotto & it was shining blue-green in the water. Light was able to sneak in through cracks/holes in the rocks which allowed for the water to naturally light up! The rock formation is supposed to be the profile of the Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri! It would be months later before I recognized the profile in my photos! Ha! I'm not sure if it was a combination of the chessy classical music they had on queque playing along w/ the sheer gorgeous sight but it was in that precise moment where I was completely enthralled in the beauty of that place...In those mere moments of the boat swaying madly to the left and right and making sure that I didn't fly off the boat trying to balance myself while snapping pictures, I was pleasantly graced by the perfect timing of the chessy music and the beauty of the grotto.

Grotto di Nettuno
Amazingly beautiful stalactites and stalagmites





The 656 steps leading down to the grotto! We took the boat...hee hee...

Alghero, Sardegna

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

San Sebastian, España

Castle of the Holy Cross (Castillo de Santa Cruz de la Mota) high above in San Sebastian





More pics. to follow...

Hike #3 ~ Picos de Europa, España

Hiking in the Picos de Europa, España
Posada de Valdeón -> Caín -> Poncebos/Los Arenas, 6+ hrs.

We started our morning at around 11am when we boarded a bus from Cangis de Onis (where we were staying) and drove about an hour to Posada de Valdeón. From there, we walked for about 1.5 hrs. to get to the village of Caín where we would begin our hike, popularly known as the Ruta de Cares, aka Cares Gorge walk.


Truly one of the most awe-inspiring & stunning hikes I've ever been on...the whole 6+ hr. hike just took my breath away....








...the weather throughout was idyllic...












More pics. to follow...

Monday, August 8, 2011

The Help, aka "The Hook-ups"

Throughout our trip, I was always giggling to myself and giving thanks all the same at the amazing people that God put into our paths...
Salvatore


We met Salvatore through a hook-up at the Agristurismo where Antoniette, the Manager, arranged for us to join a group of 4 people to go on a hike in the Supramonte Mountains! This news came especially pleasant because we had let Antoniette know last minute that we wanted to hike in the mountains...so she called up her connections & next thing I know is that she said that she was going to pack some pannis for us!
Get this...in the Land Rover that comes to pick us up...there are: 2 journalists (one Italian, one French), a really neat Irish expat working as a guide in the Supramonte mountains, an veteran guide of the mountain area, & another guide, Salvatore. To add to the whole coolness of the situation, we were in the middle of basically nowhere without having wheels of our own so it was timely and were amazing that this worked out for us!
Below is my journal drawing of our hiking crew:


Angelo...
While at our Agriturismo farm-stay, we were basically in the middle of nowhere having no access to a car. And so on the day that we wanted to leave, we asked Antoniette if she could help us arrange some sort of transportation. We needed to go to Nuroro, a small town in the mountains in order to hop on the bus to Bosa, which was another town on the westcoast of the island. Enter, Angelo! Antoniette had managed to hook us up with a ride to that town because her friend who happened to be at the Agriturismo was heading there! She says to me that her friend can give us a drop. Antoniete:
He doesn't speak any English....do you speak Italian?
Me: Not really... Anotniette
It's okay, he's funny.
The whole 20 min. drive, he gives us his business card at the beginning as we hop in and then, it's silent the rest of the way. Haha....nice guy though!

Walking to the Farm-stay Agriturismo Guthiddai

Agriturismo Guthiddai ~ Cucina Tipica





Although the walk to the farm-stay was like 2 hrs. with our heavy packs...we had such gorgeous views to enjoy as we walked along the road!