Monday 8 November 2010

Ourense

This last Saturday a wonderful couple named Jose and Rita Souto took Laura and I on a tour of Ourense. Ourense is a beautiful city with Roman influenced architecture.

The pictures below are of a small town called Allariz





A cute little doggy that was basking in the sun


A cafe/restaurant we stopped at for tea and coffee




Thought this was a cool looking scene that shows the clash between the modern world and the old






For lunch we ate at a castle called Castilla de Maceda. Here we enjoyed a mixed salad, a shrimp omelette tower, and venison rice stew



View from the castle






Jose, Rita and I




Xunqueira San Miguel - a lovely rural town where Rita is from





Downtown Ourense


Catedral San Martin De Tours



Reminds me of Pillars of the Earth


A service taking place in an ornate gold room


The cathedral ceiling




At the end of the night we stopped for pinchos and ordered pig ears - a very popular delicatessen in Ourense 


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