Do I look like I am easy?

Many times in my life I have wondered why strangers like to "make fun of me?" I guess my face just says that I am an easy target and I would not get angry even being made fun of.

Incident1. Location: Seattle
Walking on the street. All a sudden one car drove by and rolled down the window. A girl pulled a gun out aiming at me and Pat. Water (or some sort) got squirted at us.

Incident2. Location: La Rambla, Barcelona
The "Ronaldinho" pickpocket trick done on me

Incident3. Location: La Rambla, Barcelona
The unbelievable Indian clerks cussed me out

Incident4. Location: Allhuset, Stockholm
A girl came over and pushed me away trying to dance with me. After some closeups, she took a picture of my confused face.

Incident5. Location: KTH, Stockholm
2 Swedish blonde girls running towards me and circled around me. I thought they were hiding from each other with me being in the middle but then they started grabbing my ass. I had a bad day so I just assumed that they wanted some innocent looking stranger to satisfy their mischievous minds.

Incident6. Location: Santiago De Compostela
sitting in the train station, one guy came in front of my face and farted.

And there are numerous other incidents that either some stupid person jump in front of me giving me a funny face or some ugly pranks. I don't know, Maybe I am just paranoid or just too serious.

Before going home

Before going home I had to return to Madrid to fly out from there. So I used the last days to enjoy and refresh the bits of memory of Spain and Portugal...

The four new contructed skyscrapers in Madrid- going to be a hit in the coming years

The symbol of Madrid- a bear reaching for cherries

A special ceremony at the Royal Palace

Salamanca

Salamaca is a college town- that doesn't mean the city is out of order! It's still well preserved and the students blend together with all the ancient monuments

the shell house

Plaza Mayor

Burgos at night

I have seen the same kind of them twice... I wonder what the significance of a man pointing to a skull is...

And another piece of art I don't get... What's so special of this hand?

I went up to the castle mountain at night and no one was around... got a very good photo of the city although it was a bit too chilly and scary up there

Burgos

used to be one of the attractions, now it's a bank

The famous hero Sid

The famous Burgos Cathedral from the outside. way too many pictures taken inside so I am just going to skip them

Bilbao

The whole city is filled with public art from bridges to small decorations on the streets

The Guggenheim museum- famous for its architecture but has the worst collection I have seen in years

Santiago de Compostela, Galicia

Galicia is situated in the northwestern part of Spain. It has its own language and under the Celtic language group. Galego is another official language of Spain besides Catalan and the Basque language. Many people have asked me what city I like the most on this trip, this town is definitely one of my top choices because it feels so different from the rest of Spain and somehow catches my heart. The parks reminds me of Scotland and Ireland from the movies.

Inside a museum

The famous Cathedral/Church of Santiago

Porto- a wine city

all the signs of the wine cellars in the area

wine boats

in the wine cellar

look at the years of those wines!

Porto, Portugal

The Poets Hostel in Porto

still hillly

Bits of Lisbon

The final Euro 2004 was played in Sporting Lisbon's home field

Castle in the sky

unique train station in Lisbon

Sintra, Portugal

Sintra is just a small town close to Lisbon, It's right on the coast to the Atlantic Ocean. Beautiful architecture and the green are its attraction

Those chimneys pop from a famous monestery but we didn't know back at that time so just assumed it was a factory

see that castle?

Here we are at the castle

American Canadian I ran into in Lisbon