Picture: Nancy, Steve, and Ellen My father had a “son in law cup” as a friendly competition for the husbands of his daughters. If I started one for cousins, Nancy would be in the lead! For those that don’t know my family history, Nancy is my first cousin. Her mother was my mother’s younger sister. She has […]
According to Wikipedia, “Spanish rain does not actually stay mainly in the plain. It falls mainly in the northern mountains. In Spanish, the phrase was translated as La lluvia en Sevilla es una maravilla (The rain in Seville is marvellous). The lyric about Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire implies (but does not entail) that hurricanes ever occur […]
Nancy, Ellen, and I did a daytrip to Toledo. We took the high speed train, as it takes 30 minutes, vs. 90 on the bus. It was another whirlwind, but would like to go back sometime. We didn’t get to see many of the panoramas from a distance for which Toledo is famous. It’s also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Turns out there is a lot of music and dance in Granada. We were walking down the street, hit the Plaza de Carmen, and lo and behold, there was a stage set up and a crowd gathered. On the stage were about 20-30 guitar players of all ages, as well as about 20-30 young girls […]
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 […]
We took the high speed train from Barcelona to Madrid, then Madrid to Santa Ana where we had to get on a bus to Granada due to maintenance on the tracks. For those of you who have not been on a high speed train, here is a movie I took of the countryside between Madrid […]
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