Greetings from Dortmund again!

One more visit to Dortmund. How lucky I was I got the same place to stay! It is a nice feeling! 

So I wish you all the happy weekend!

Visiting Spain Via Portugal only's Natural Park, Gerês..

 So we were getting ready for our next trip!!! I remember Nasim was all the time saying "Gerês Baby"!! (I am still smiling about that expression!- Good one Nasim!) That was the name of the Natural park....

It was obvious Fardin was trying to get himself in this photo.... Nice Try Fardin!

So we were already there!! It was quite hot out there!!

We stopped here to see the  nice view of the valley...

then we were down .. How great it looks???

tried to capture some photos of us !!!

After enjoying the great view, we headed towards other view point called "Pedra Bela"..

On our way we stopped here and found this place interesting..

and here I should say "this is the funniest photo of our entire trip".. I was insanely hungry and eating bread. 

(If you ever see me eating bread either I am so hungry or there is no food other than bread in a table)

so you can imagine! But I like this photo to be laughed and remembered by!

Four of us!

then we headed to our target place... Pedra Bela.. Interesting rocks!!!

Nasim attempted Brave move!! It looked pretty dangerous.. That is why you can see I was sitting on her lap.. I didn't want to take a risk of shifting!! 

few more photos in that region....

Small fountain.. it was refreshing!!


Also a fresh water was helping my thirst!!

Finally we reached our targeted restaurant to have our lunch!! It was around 5 pm.. So that explains how hungry I was to eat that bread! Ha ha.. Felt like owe an explanation!

We even knew that what we are going to eat and where .. that was very well explained in a plan.. One of our friends made this nice plan.. Because he lived here for 30 years. so no escape!!

we enjoyed really the food..It was so good indeed!!

And I should say this it was the cheapest and delicious food we have ever had in Europe.

I suggest everyone should go to this place whenever you visit Gerês! 

and comes the relaxing moment!! 

 
this was the interesting shop.. hand made wooden stuff.. so we stopped by and bought some stuff.

I was really thinking!! Hmmm... It was all about our next stop...

  This was the plan our friend made.. I have to really show this to you! 

So here I am trying to explain to the driver (Fardin) and co-pilot (Abol).. Believe me they seem to be listening.. But honestly they weren't. No offense guys!

if you talk with Nasim she explains better! Ha ha... 

I will tell you one small story... this is all about "GPS".. Now I have very little respect for that.. sorry.. It made us to waste our traveling time a lot!! and funny we had to come back several times to the same place..

GPS is good but for sure not always.. Road signs were very clear and It was very clearly written the direction in a huge letters. But our driver never wanted to follow that and he was so obsessed with GPS and ended up with ........ ha ha ha... you can fill!

okay, anyway... we were crossing these very old style of storage places on our way to Spain (that was very veryyyyyyyyy long way!! I am not sure still that it is the GPS problem or that is the only way to get to Spain!!) Will have to confirm...


Finalmente, we reached spain border. Everyone of us were so tired just needed good bed to rest.. We did!!

       ..... continued next day in Spain.. and it was my big day!! Guess what??

Lovely Visitors from Finland!

Would like to start with the typical Iranian Sweets.. Looks attractive right??? 

I got those from my guests.. Those visited all the way from Finland.. You could easily guess who they are!!

Sim! Nasim and Abolfazl.. hmmm.. As we all know it is always nice if our good friends visit us.. Yes they did!! 

more than a week!!   How can I appreciate them??? Will find a way!!

those sweets tasted good too.. Not too sweet!!

also some more typical Iranian food..  I was serving them in my room.. (Secret: forbidden to cook inside!)

After had little chat with them, I said about my plans.. Since then, they called me their "BOSS".. My intention was to make their trip perfect!! I was glad that they liked my plans! Actually it includes my friends good ideas! Thanks everyone!

So first was watching sunset and follows dinner.. 

Beautiful right???

After walking in the beach side we had to clean our shoes.. 

It is one of my favorite photos of their trip.. and I have to talk about this dog.. He/She was following us all the time.. We got almost scared at the end of leaving that place.. 

Then we headed to have a nice fish in a famous restaurant..

(we were enquiring about the types of fishes!) actually Nasim did!!

Picked one good restaurant and started with a nice green wine..

(other good photo!)

We know why they are laughing like that but I cant share with you! sorry guys!

Poor Fardin was taking all the time photos.. so it is his time!

Then arrived our fish .. It was so big.. but really it tasted good.. 

This is after we were completely full! 

But it tasted more good with hunting left over.. Nasim was good at that and gave us more!

Obriga Menina!

This was how we passed our evenings on their arrival day!!

Hope they did enjoy!!

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