Given that Ben and Lisa were working on Monday, we decided to pop on down to London. We grabbed a fast train, and 40 minutes later we were at King’s Cross, where we hopped on a “hoho” bus (hop-on, hop-off). This was both good and bad. The good was that they furnished disposable plastic ponchos […]
One of the great joys of travel is running into a “relative separated at birth.” We aren’t sure if Lisa is Ellen’s daughter or sister from a previous life, but ever since running into her looking for the same restaurant in Evora, Portugal, there has been a connection. This connection was strengthened when she and […]
Derek has been a superb host in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a biking kind of town. Reports suggest that there are between two and three bikes per person in Amsterdam. There are bike lanes and routes everywhere. There are bicycle parking lots that hold thousands of bikes. And all of the bikes have bells. Tourists or […]
We took the overnight from Madrid to Lisbon. It is the only train between the two cities, and runs on old, bumpy, slow, and uncomfortable track. One would think that Spain is not the largest trading partner of Portugal. As we arrived at 7:20 in the morning, we decided to head straight down to the […]
To be fair, we did Cordoba in a whirlwind. We drove from Sevilla along the impressive Spanish highways. It took maybe two hours. Nancy’s phone had Google GPS and it generally helped us find where we needed to go. We had rented another Airbnb and the map showed that is was located within the walls […]
Sevilla was founded by Hercules about 3000 years ago. He did a fine job. It is now one of the coolest places in the world. (It seems we’re saying that quite often in Spain). Sevilla is about 100 km up the Guadalquivir River from Cádiz, and it is a inland shipping port (container ships, etc.). It was where […]
We decided to stop in Cádiz on the way to Sevilla because Ellen’s family had hosted a social worker from Cádiz many years ago. When Ellen and I went sailing in the early 80’s with her parents, they had some work done on the boat in Gibraltar, and we took the bus to Cádiz to visit Maria […]
Having rented a car in Granada, and having Nancy the only driver in order to save the €10, and having Nancy practice her driving in the gothic streets of Albaicin, we set off for the coast on the eventual way to Seville. We had stops to make on the way. First we went to Frigiliana. This […]
The Alhambra is a place that it seems all Spaniards are proud of. Every Spaniard to whom we mentioned our visit to the Alhambra was excited for us and bursting with pride. I visited about 42 years ago and things have changed a bit. Now you need to get tickets ahead of time, and it […]
I have never been happier than traveling with my wife and Nancy, the new addition to our team. (Actually, Nancy told me to say that, but it isn’t that bad. Really) Granada is a pretty great town. Within a few hours, we were considering how it would be to spend a few months here next […]
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