Arnao

Where Antonio Ribas worked for Real Compañía de Minas. This is where he most likely met Mercedes' brother, Antonio González Conde.

Photos:

Playa de Arnao and the zinc smelter

Playa de Arnao (2)

Entrance to the zinc mine, which ran 2km out under the seabed

More family

Maria Antonia, daughter of Covadonga González Cueto, and her daughters, Maria Antonia and Maria Jesus; and Marina and Arturo's son Arturo and his family

Avilés

Photos:

San Román de Naveces

José Martí monument

Ayuntamiento (City Hall)

A little Deutschland on Calle Galiana

Santiago pilgrim chapel on Calle Rivero

Saints and crucifix in pilgrim chapel

Hotel Palacio de Ferrera

El Sol (cross street in medieval Avilés)

Franciscan's Church (oldest building in Avilés, 12th century)

Tomb of Pedro Menendez, founder of St Augustine, Florida, in Franciscan's Church

Niemeyer Center and Port of Avilés

Niemeyer Center

Park Muelle (created in the 19th century when a part of the estuary was filled, which had separated medieval Avilés from Sabugo, the medieval fisherman's quarter, which was outside the city walls)

Monument to Pedro Menendez in Park Muelle

13th century Romanesque apse and side entrance to Sabugo church

Communist Party headquarters

Oviedo

Photos:

Old town street and Oviedo Catedral

Sole surviving Romanesque window, Iglesia de San Tirso

Roman aqueduct

Berlin Comedian Harmonists

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Comedian_Harmonists

At Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, 5.4.2012

Berlin Philharmonic Easter Cconcert

At Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Mahler's Second Symphony and Sir Simon Rattle. Music gets no better or more moving.

St Elisabeth Friedhof, Berlin

On the east side of Bernauer Straße.

In the last two photos are sections of the inner Wall, just behind Die Kapelle der Versöhnung (Chapel of Reconciliation)