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After my very early morning trip back to the chaos at Heathrow and standing for a couple of hours in numerous snaking lines, I finally was told that getting to Budapest – with my bags – in the waning days …

The mass cursing of British Airways may be having some effect, but my puny whining is negligible. Plus, you can’t reach anyone at BA in any event. With bags still missing, I don’t have to take any time in deciding …

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 …