Roma

The Trevi fountain.  A life goal realized for Renee.

Oh, did I mention that part of the goal was to eat gelatto there?  It was divine.  Renee's favorites were cherry combined with chocolate or pistachio all by itself.  Dane prefers the fruits like Melon, Strawberry and Lemon.

I'm pretty sure you can figure out where this one is.  It's a neat feeling to actually be inside that building.

Some original wall decoration from more than 2000 years ago.  It was neat to see high fashion from that time.  Although it didn't look a day over seventy-five.

The Pantheon.  With modern building materials a dome like this would crumble under its own weight.

We finally figured out where Dane gets his curly hair.  It's from ancient Greeks.  At least we think this was a Greek statue... It didn't say.  Or maybe it's just a couple years old, and Dane forgot to tell me that he used to pose for sculptors.

The Vatican museums were amazing.  Their artwork is not hung on walls, but rather is painted directly onto the walls or, as in this case, on the ceiling.

Alibaba had lunch with Nomads

Dades Gorge. Morocco. Those are ruins of Kasbahs (mud and straw houses people once and still live in)

Erg Chebbi,Waiting in the Sahara Desert for a camel Trek

We went on an overnight camel trek, we can not decide if this or Fez has been our favorite part of Morocco.

The Nomads made us a very very delicious Couscous for lunch

The hotel workers, our guide, market vendors, and basically everyone in Morocco calls Dane Alibaba

The dunes in Erg Chebbi

Sunset

The dunes can get up to 180 meters tall

Sunrise and the end of our camel trek

Renees first Moroccan meal: chicken kebabs, rice and fries. Best tasting meal after a 12 hour bus ride to Fez.

Renee got Henna in Fez. This design is supposed to bring luck and safety

This is a very large and very intricately designed drinking fountain in Fez

Flamanco!!!

This is the "farm" Dane and I stayed at for a few days.  The entire lot was covered in wild flowers

This was the room/storage area Dane and I stayed in at the farm

Some of the decor in a Spanish Cathedral.

The people of Spain liked us so much they asked Renee to be queen. That crown is SOLID GOLD with thousands of dazzling diamonds!!!

While in Seville there was a Flamanco festival so about seventy percent of all the people we saw were wearing a Flamanco outfit.

In Tarifa Spain Dane could see AFRICA!

The End of Spain

A view from the palace Alhambra

Watching the sunset with our workstay host, Pia, and another worker in Bolonia

Mezquita in Cordoba. This was a palace courtyard  built by the Moors when the Catholics took over they turned it in to a Cathedral. It is an incredible building with hundreds of arches

So the Alhambra was a palace lived in by the Moors way back in the day. Almost all of the decor consists of Arabic writing and spectacular tile work. The palace is most well known for its incredible architecture.

Our first few Days

At Dane's old hometown, Alcala de Henares.  These trees' branches grow into eachother kind of like an upside down aspen.

Inside the Cathedral in Madrid.  The reflection of the stained glass on the pillars was a lot more vivid than we could capture in this picture.

Churros con Chocolate. The chocolate was surprisingly rich and almost overwhelming to Renee.  But still absolutely delicious.

The Cathedral in Segovia.  It's big.

The Alcazar (castle) in Segovia.  We got to climb up that big tower.  The spiral staircase so long that we were both dizzy at the top and bottom.

Renee's favorite site we've seen so far.  Roman Aqueduct in Segovia