Sevilla: Discover a Beautiful City Full of Fan Palms, Cafés and Memorable Monuments.
Enjoy sun-drenched plazas and wafting flamenco music! Grab comfortable shoes and an “abanico” (fan), and explore one of Spain’s most memorable cities. We enjoy the luxury of a four-star hotel for a change....
Holy Toledo!
Holy Toledo! We now understand where this exclamation comes from. Likeing Toledo so far? Consider checking out our full Spain canon here! Toledo is crammed with churches, cathedrals, former mosques, and former synagogues. It is...
Exploring the Fabled Red Towers and Walls of the Alhambra In Granada, Spain
The Alhambra palace and fortress stretches her magnificent form across the top of the hill, La Sabika and its fabled red towers and walls are seen from almost every vantage point in Granada. The Alhambra de Granada is the most...
The Tourist Trail of Don Quijote. Keep Left
From the followsummer archives. Spain, September 2004 Madrid to Cordoba: 396 kilometres It is nearly 11 when we check out of our hotel and find the M506 that will direct us to the A4 south to Córdoba, Espana. We have to re-check...
Madrid: Alive and Breathing in Life to its Fullest
Madrid is not one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Much of its historical and cultural history has been torn down to make way for the new. Indeed, it seems to be a city on the verge of the next century, good and bad. The...
The Prado in One Day
I was merciless yesterday as we did our walking tour of Madrid: although the guidebook told us that the walking tour would take at least two days, we got it done in one (and were our feet complaining loudly last night? You bet...
Sunday: A Complete Day of Rest in Catholic Spain
For anyone who doesn’t work in a store or a restaurant, Sunday seems to be a complete day of rest in Catholic Spain, with not much going on (other than eating out or shopping, with the major stores open all day long). In...
Barcelona: Just Beyond Our Reach
Despite the miles we have walked, we feel like Barcelona is just beyond reach. We decide to take a bus tour of the city to see the places we haven’t seen. 5 hours later, all spent on the 2nd level of a double-decker bus, we think...
Blending In With the Locals in Southern Spain
They are burning the fields throughout southern Spain today and the horizon is dotted with plumes of white and brown smoke that trails up and tracks across the sky, dragged by the high blowing winds. We worry about the controlled...
A Stop Over in Languedoc-Roussillon
Tuesday, August 31st, 2004: St Jean de la blaquiere, France Languedoc-Roussillon N 43 E 003 Nice to St. Jean de la Blaquiere: 396 kilometres Barcelona is a longer drive than we had expected and before we leave Nice we decide to...