Daily Archives: April 12, 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 …