SPAIN | Monday, 20 May 2013 | Views [1145]
We detoured through the hill town of Montoro on our way to Cordoba. We were looking for information on the national park and became entangled in a maze of hilly, twisting streets so narrow we had to fold in our mirrors to avoid rubbing the whitewashed ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | Views [909]
It was raining and cold, just above freezing, as we climbed the winding road from Elche into Andalucia. We could even see snow on some of the higher peaks. Spring in Spain can be like spring in the Rockies.
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SPAIN | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Friday, 17 May 2013 | Views [579]
Historians pretty much agreed that the palms in the Palmeral of Elche, just west of Alicante, were planted by the Moors during their long occupation of Iberia. Recent archeological evidence, however, coupled with DNA from the palms indicate that the ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 16 May 2013 | Views [572]
We joke that while we know where we will be in, say March, 2014 (India), we don't know where we will be tomorrow night. But it is the truth!
Planning is a day-to-day thing. Often we will decide to stay over for a couple of days if we especially ... Read more >
SPAIN | Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | Views [1284]
A rental car can be either a blessing or a curse. On the one hand, having a car enables you to go wherever you like, whenever you want. At the same time it deprives you of the experience of using public transportation. In Europe ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 12 May 2013 | Views [1305]
I could write about his background, how Domenikos Theotokopoulos was born in Crete, trained as a painter in Italy and developed his unique style in his adopted city of Toledo where he became known as El Greco, "the Greek." About how his elongated ... Read more >
SPAIN | Saturday, 11 May 2013 | Views [607]
Toledo, Spain's leading Catholic city, is dominated by a wonderful cathedral. Streets are named for saints and museums are chock-a-block with religious paintings. So you can imagine my surprise when I read that the expression "Holy Toledo" ... Read more >
SPAIN | Friday, 10 May 2013 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Friday, 10 May 2013 | Views [394]
El Greco's "View of Toledo" has haunted me ever since I first saw it in 1971 on a college art assignment to NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a few days of Madrid under our belts we're back in the vagabonding groove and it's time to see Toledo ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 9 May 2013 | Views [863]
Madrid is a paradise for Art lovers with all the greats on display. The private collection at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, valued at €2 billion, has been described as major works by minor artists and minor works by great masters. If ... Read more >
SPAIN | Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | Views [1040]
Madrid is a young city by European standards and is a pleasure to visit on foot. From the tree shaded Prado and Gran Via to the pedestrian only Calle de Arenal and all the narrow lanes, everything is marked with illustrated tile signs and pictures ... Read more >
SPAIN | Monday, 6 May 2013 | Views [355]
The port of Barcelona was hopping this morning. While we were eating breakfast four other cruise ships were queued up to enter the harbor. Most of the people getting off boarded buses to whisk them off to the airport . . . and home. ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 5 May 2013 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Sunday, 5 May 2013 | Views [678]
Maybe it was the Fiesta de Santa Cruz that brought out the beauties. Or maybe it was just a normal Sunday. In any event these fair Spanish ladies were the highlight of our few hours in Alicante. When they vanished into one of the hidden ... Read more >
GIBRALTAR | Saturday, 4 May 2013 | Views [995]
In exteme southern Spain sits a bit of merry olde England. Gibraltar, Prudential’s “piece of the rock” and one of the Pillars of Hercules, guards the opening to the Med. Despite the collapse of the empire, Great Britain ... Read more >
PORTUGAL | Thursday, 2 May 2013 | Views [1294]
This was my second visit to Portugal without ever setting foot on the mainland. But we will soon remedy that! And it was wonderful to stretch our legs on dry land after a week of pitching and rolling at sea.
Madeira, like Jeremiah the ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 26 Apr 2013 | Views [416]
Cruises seem to be especially appealing to the old, the fat and the infirm. I don't remember seeing nearly as many wheelchairs, walkers and canes on our previous trip, not to mention electric scooters. Sure, there were some young couples ... Read more >
BAHAMAS | Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013 | Views [544]
Tourism is the local religion in Nassau and everyone had a “Good morning!” for us as we explored the town. Everyone, that is except the oh-so British gentleman walking his bulldog. When I greeted him with “Good morning.... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | Views [391]
We must have looked like travel virgins, dressed as we were in new clothes and towing shiny new luggage. Even our passports were brand new with nary a stamp in them. And here we were boarding a cruise ship. Oh, the shame of it!
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