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In mid-September we visited the cathedral in Washington. Yes, Washington has its Gothic cathedral, or rather neo-Gothic that ended the last century. But the style did as if it were in the middle ages. Even the building materials were the same as then. There are no steel beams, and cement or concrete. It's all pure stone. And the result is splendid. The stone is from a local quarry. It is a pure white stone, and the cathedral seems to shine.

I'm used to seeing cathedrals worn gray stone. Washington Cathedral is as would the common people of the Middle Ages European cathedrals: a clean white monument.

We arrived at the cathedral with the purpose of visiting the windows, but we stopped before entering middle of the house, admiring the clean lines and uncluttered. What a contrast to the English cathedrals, which are somewhat too much detail. Washington Cathedral is all elegance.

A group of curious tourists. Several have binoculars, one even has a telescope, and everyone seems to consider the details of the high towers. It seems to me to think they are fans of architecture. We are with them, it is the place where you see the best the facade, when the telescope, which happens to be a guide, begin to draw attention to the group, us included. "Ready to start your tour of the gargoyles?" Wonder what's that tour and the guide will answer que es un tour de hora y media que se centra en las gárgolas del exterior del edificio, y que lo hacen una vez por semana. Nos llama la atención este tipo de tour, y el entusiasmo del guía nos anima a apuntarnos. Tenemos tiempo, e incluso tenemos prismáticos que siempre llevamos cuando vamos de viaje.

El guía nos cuenta que las gárgolas tienen su función para proteger el edificio de la lluvia, pero los masones tienen licencia para esculpirlas como quieran, dentro de ciertos temas. Nos dice que, al contrario de los motivos del interior, que son religiosos, las gárgolas y otros adornos del exterior son ateos, reflejo del modo de vivir de la época. Y así, si en la edad media representaban temas de interés of that era, this cathedral, which was completed less than fifty years ago, has more modern themes that reflect modern culture.

and discover images of all kinds. The oldest part has pictures like European gargoyles, mythological monsters of all sorts, and sat with my mouth open. But as we move into newer areas, the Masons began to give free rein to their imagination, and found an octopus, a lobster, a donkey, and people from various professions. Astronomer is watching the sky, the executive running with his suitcase, the tourist taking photos.

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There are characters in stories and tales of the place but I do not know. There are even movie characters. So, if you see one of the towers you see, there on high, the figure of Darth Vader in the Star Wars. And it suits me think, what will the tourists visiting the cathedral in five hundred years? Perhaps you think that is an alien and think we had visitors from other galaxies? Already there are gargoyles on the cathedral where no one knows who the carved, or even what they are. Over time, most of the gargoyles will lose their meaning and strange figures like European cathedrals.

We reached the end of the tour and the guide shows us the last gargoyle. It's kind of monster like traditional gargoyles, but this is special. Tells us to look his mouth ... and then we see that there is a person inside with a camera. It is a tourist being eaten by a gargoyle! The guide, showing a mysterious smile, we left in place. And I wonder, maybe next week there will be a gargoyle and a tourist more less?

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While visiting Washington by bike, most people will most likely visit it from a tourist bus. The truth is that there's nothing like getting on the second floor of one of those top buses to tour the city as a tourist. Mineko Whenever we travel to another city and I, the first thing we do is take one of these buses. So I decided to wait until I visit Mineko to our role as real tourists. Mineko

came two weeks after me. The first thing we did to recover from the jetlag was to visit Washington, no bike, but in tandem. My recipe against jetlag: do some exercise in the light of day. It was a beautiful day. We arrived at Georgetown, a suburb of Washington, and back to Bethesda.

The following weekend we did the tourist visit real. The plan was that, taking one of those buses. But that they were two, neither do we stop to check where these buses stop before leaving home. And in Washington (going by subway, not bike), we did not know where to find the bus.

Washington city is not very big, but you can not go on foot from side to side. We left the subway in Chinatown, an area that seemed central. And we saw the bus in the distance. We walked the streets to see if we can stop, but nothing. We decided to walk to the place of the white house there for sure. But this house was quite far, and it took us over an hour to arrive. Along the way we saw the bus, but, as if it were a ghost, was always away and never found any stops blessed. We arrived at the gate of the White House, and nothing, nothing that looks like a bus stop.

Nearby was a tourist office, but was closed on Saturday afternoons ... When more tourists! Of course, this is not Europe.

tourism's book Mineko, a Japanese book that always amazes me as practical details gives, this time does not say where taking the bus, but at least give a phone number I can call. Call the number but all I get is to hear a recording with a very low voice and with an American accent which was not yet accustomed. With traffic noise just get to hear something that buses leave from the U, or something ... U which will be this season? Will the Washington stations are named after the streets? All streets running east to west are called according to the letters of the alphabet, and streets running north to south are called numbers. With so maybe the U is in U Street?

We finally resigned. After this hike, we returned to Bethesda in Washington without bus tour. We'll try on Sunday. We left

Sunday, this time with the full name of the station: the main station called Union Station. It seems that Americans eat more letters than the Andalusians. And so we come to the station, and there was the bus, red and painted American flag, waiting. Finally!

The system is hop-on hop-off, meaning that you can get off at a stop, see something and get on the next bus. But we decided to just stay on the bus, and thank goodness we did, that the journey lasted over two hours ... impossible to do on foot. We saw the Capitol from all angles, as the design of the city is such that all major roads leading to the Capitol. We saw again the white house, and discovered that the stop was a few meters beyond where we look, just around the corner ... Of course.

The day was perfect, neither hot nor cold, and the recording (which had no phone) was clear and interesting and we learned a lot, the Lincoln Memorial columns (one for each of the 48 states of the time) , Jefferson Memorial, which created the U.S. Constitution, the Washington Cathedral, the sixth largest in the world, Arlington Cemetery, a cemetery overlooking Finally, since we are tourists!