and here are the pics of day three:

me amparo and the city hall

a little shopping at "lola-casademunt"
pink still seems to be the colour since the movie about me ;-)

continue shopping at "mercat de colon"

the turia garden

santiago calatrava again! the opera of valencia.
the valencia born architekt is one of my favorite artists in the world,

as you might already know from my visits to sevilla, liège and new york.

and more of calatrava at the "city of arts and sciences"

the-city-of-arts-and-sciences

and even more...

the largest aquarium in europe right here behind me...

sunset at one of valencia's beautiful beaches
and byebye for this time...

 day two in valencia

in front of the central market hall

inside the "marcat central de valencia"

amparo among the giants in the
"museo del corpus casa de las rocas"

mi at the legendary water tribunal 

which takes place every thursday at noon,

the oldest tribunal in europe (since 963 ad)

as my last trip to norway turned out to be extremely windy
with endless snowstorms i decided to make a trip to valencia
to meet my friend amparo

meeting amparo in the city center

visiting the silk purse

same inside

and again the silk purse

plaza-de-la-virgen

amparo and st mary's cathedral

early evening at the plaza de la reina

hunting for polar lights:
what an experience!

in the beginning they are really hard to see...

getting better ;-)

and then it is overwhelming...

hi again,
this time i am on a trip with hurtigruten in norway
together with my old friend mette from oslo.
maybe we'll meet lykke a little later
and she will join us on our tour for a few days...

with mette at the harbour of bergen

stockfish

a little village called bud, close to the atlantic road

same

and again

the famous atlantic road,
featured in the james bond movie
no time to die

in front of our ship, the ms trollfjord

 

our ship at the harbour of molde

day 9 and 10
meeting with saanvi in agra with the red fort and the taj mahal
finally!!!

ch. shivaji mahara statue opposite of the red fort

one of the magic places on earth: the taj mahal in agra

 

back again in delhi: the lotus temple

bye-bye saanvi, ila and india!
what a great time...

 day 8
jaipur

the hawa mahal, a five-storey building looking like a honeycomb of a beehiv,
so the ladies couldn't be seen, whilst watching the parade in the street

a snake charmer an his cobra oppositeof hawa mahal

the city palace of jaipure

same

same

same

some indian "distant relatives" (hihi)

ila in front of the main building inside the palace

the jaipur observatory is for astronomy and astrology

jaipur observatory
and again