What??? A cruise???? I know many of you can’t believe that we are actually on a cruise. I have said some bad things about them in the past. It isn’t our style at all; we still enjoy seeing the world our way and at our pace, but we wanted to give it a try. I…
Tag: Spain
Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain
We wanted to stay in a smaller beach town near Barcelona for a few days. Our nomad friends Georganna and Tom, had raved about the town of Sitges when we met with them in Turkiye last year. We had a hard time finding a decent Airbnb and it may have been caused by a Fantasy…
Tarragona, Spain in the Rain
We booked 6 nights in Tarragona during the festival of Concurs de Castells. We were hoping to see some of human tower competition that is held here in Tarragona every other year. If you haven’t heard of it, they create teams of 200-300 people and see how high they can create a human tower. The…
Figueres, Spain and Salvador Dali
My high school Spanish teacher, Senora Palmquist, loved Salvador Dali and his hometown of Figueres in the Catalan region of Spain. She showed us pictures, art, and told us stories about her visits to Dali’s museum in Figueres and his waterfront home in Cadaques. I learned a lot about Dali’s weird life and the symbolism…
Rest time in Port-Vendres, France
In my last post, I made the controversial statement that I was not a “Prague Guy”. Some folks were upset that it seemed like I was not impressed by one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Not exactly the point that I meant to convey…. While I don’t like fancy, busy, expensive cities, I really think…
Malaga, Spain
After our week in Malaga, we have now visited all 4 of the big cities in the Andalucian region of Spain. I suppose I should be expected to name my favorite of Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Malaga. But, no…. I liked them all and I just can’t seem to pick favorites. Malaga is the only…
Cordoba, Spain
This is our 4th trip to Andalusia, but our first time in Cordoba. Not sure why we waited so long to visit here. We really enjoyed our week. Cordoba was a very important city during many parts of Spain’s history and the old town still reflects that. There are so many small pedestrian streets and…
Huelva, Spain – Feria del Caballo (Horse Fair)
The train networks in Spain and Portugal are improving, but there still isn’t very good connections between the countries. In order to travel from the Portuguese Algarve region back to Spain, it would be easier to travel by bus. We don’t like long travel days so we decided to break up our trip from Portimao…
Underrated Zaragoza, Spain
We couldn’t find an easy train or bus from San Sebastian to Zaragoza so we decided to rent a car. Spain’s train network is vastly improved but still “in work”. We are still traveling with Paul and Kara and it makes a lot more sense to rent a car when traveling with 2 couples. This…
Basque Country with Paul and Kara
Yep, it isn’t just the 2 of us for a couple of weeks. We are 4 once again – Meg’s brother Paul, and his Spain-loving wife Kara, are joining us for a couple of weeks exploring the Basque Region of Northern Spain. We really like traveling with people and were excited that they wanted to…
Our new favorite Spanish town- Castro Urdiales
The more we travel, the more that we are drawn to smaller towns. We have been to a lot of Spanish cities and have enjoyed them all, but we have missed out on a lot of the smaller towns. Now is the time that we are becoming more focused on the out of the way…
Off Again!!
Our summer in Seattle has come to an end. It seems like time flew too fast but we were able to see a lot of people and do a lot of things in our 2 months here this year. We are ready to take off again. This time we are heading to Ireland, Spain and…
Alicante, Spain
The last stop on the European leg of our fall trip. We have spent September in France, and October in Spain, and we knew we would be a bit weary from all that European culture travel so we had planned 9 days at the Spanish beach town of Alicante. We were envisioning a quiet week…
Altea and Elche day trips
We stayed 9 days in Alicante, Spain and we anticipated doing a lot of day trips along the coast. Alicante has a light rail (tram) that goes a long ways North and hits several different beach towns. On our first day in town, we walked a few miles along the beach to Playa de Albufereta…
Valencia, Spain
We did not do too much travel planning for Valencia. We just spend 2 weeks in 4 different Spanish cities with P & K, which were thoroughly researched and planned.. Now P & K have left, and we are again left to our own planning (or lack thereof). So… the first thing to do in…