Monthly Archives: April 2016

Apparently, neither my pitiable Spanish nor my fairly fluent English was good enough to clearly communicate among the Basque people. Although most signs weren’t in Spanish, some were in English, and I felt like I was in some other country …

We arrived at the Atocha train station and after a short drive through the city, we went to the Palace Hotel. The tour I was on made so many things effortless, including the fact that our luggage would be whisked …

This could hold up to 40,000 men. I guess the women stayed home. After the reconquest, about 1/2 acre of the 7 acres or so was converted to the cathedral, and the minaret was changed to a bell tower. As …

Kind of like seeing the opera in Santa Fe, I didn’t know this was on my bucket list. But there is a statue of Carmen (the hussy) near the bull ring. We ate that night back at the Alfonso XIII …

After a quick tour of city via our tour motorcoach, we went to the Plaza de Espana and then by carriage ride thru the nearby park. All through this trip, the orange trees have been in bloom, so the wonderful …

We finished at the Alhambra and after having a wonderful lunch at a great restaurant (it used to be a truck stop but the King of Spain now eats there in a private room in the huge wine cellar), we …

We stayed one night at the Alhambra Palace hotel. The rooms were elegantly old, but the service was as grand as in the glory days. After a private dinner and a spectacular sunset, we went the next morning to the …

Never even heard about it before I went there. Roman walls, small Grand Canyon and hangout of many writers. We stopped there on way from Malaga (southern Spain) on our way to Granada. Ronda also has the oldest bullfighting ring …

Life is on a fast track. Monday: Barcelona; Tuesday: left early and flew to Malaga and then through Ronda (more pictures of that part of the adventure in next posts); and today, after seeing the Alhambra earlier today and staying …

After traveling from SA through Detroit (where it was snowing and we had to have the planes’ wings de-iced), the Air France plane arrived a bit late at Charles DeGaulle airport in Paris. While the food is great! on the …