Welcome to Madrid!
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004: Madrid, Spain N 40 W 003 Barcelona to Madrid: 658 kilometres Madrid is an interesting curiosity: rising out of a dry, brown plateau, the city welcomes its driving visitors first with urban sprawl,...
Lazy Food Compromising in Sevilla, Spain.
Monday, September 13th, 2004: Sevilla, Spain N 37 W 005 Cordoba to Sevilla: 138 kilometres Today we have an easy drive. We sleep in, and head out just before noon. Shortly after 1 we are driving down Avenida Kansas City, the main...
Sevilla: A Beautiful, Lush City Full of Fan Palms, Cafés and Historic Monuments
Tuesday, September 14th, 2004: Sevilla, Spain We enjoy the luxury of a 4 star hotel for a change. Purists would have our heads on a platter as we consider by-passing Sevilla altogether for the privilege of just vegging and...
A 2 Day Drive to Vacation from Vacation
Friday, September 17th, 2004: Valencia, Spain N 39 W 000 Granada to Valencia: 567 kilometres The Costa Brava is north of Barcelona on the Mediterranean, and today we begin 2 days of driving, stopping in Valencia for the night...
A Spanish Villa for a Week.
Saturday, September 18th, 2004: Calonge, Spain N 41 E 003 Valencia to Calonge: 457 kilometres The roundabout outside our hotel takes us right to the highway. Valencia was a sleep over stop for us, breaking our 1000 kilometre trip...
Lazy Sunday on the Costa Brava
Sunday, September 19th, 2004: A beautiful day, perfect blue sky! We all sit by the pool, looking down the hill at the Mediterranean but not moving. Finally, late in the afternoon, David and I head into town to try to find some...
Great Vacation Buddies
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004: Calonge, Spain Our days are filled with doing nothing. It is unusually overcast today but that doesn’t stop us from diving into our books or reading the papers. Our usual perch is the tiled...
Lunching and People Watching on The Costa Brava
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004: Calonge, Spain After 3 days of doing nothing, today is the day to venture farther afield, to Tossa de Mar, with a beautiful wide sandy beach and a castle on the headland that was built between...
France in Two Days
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004: Calonge, Spain We connect with our friend Rosemary in the US who will be joining us for 10 days during the next part of our trip. France will welcome us on Saturday the 25th of September, and we...
Lunching on a Spanish Terrace
Friday, September 24th, 2004: Calonge, Spain It is our last full day in our “home for a week”. Although the sky is cloudy when we wake, it clears while we are breakfasting on the terrace, and we have yet another perfect day. Not...