Our time in Europe was growing ever so short. We had one week left before we needed to be in Barcelona to catch the cruise ship to Florida. Last year we spent a month in Perpignan and made friends that we were anxious to see again. Perpignan just happened to be on the way to…
Category: Spain
Granada – Alhambra, Spain: A City forged by Religions and Races
It’s been nearly 800 years since I ruled Granada from my residence, Alhambra, and much has changed since those times. My once grand palace is now only a museum, a shell of what it once was. No longer do its walls protect it against its many enemies. And the now grand city of…
Seville, Spain: A Recommended Quest
O’ Dark-Thirty Bee-beep… Bee-beep… Bee-beep… Time to get up. Bee-beep… Why? Where are we? My brain wanted to know but the rest of my body wanted to go back to sleep. Beeeeee-beep! beep! beep! beep! For a month we were in Perpignan taking the days slowly and never setting an alarm but the last few…
Bareclona, Spain: Gaudi, Picasso, Miro, Las Ramblas – The City Itself, A Work of Art.
There are many reasons to travel and one should define one’s goals before setting off to places unknown. Sometimes the goal is to immerse oneself into a culture very different from your own. Yet another is to awe over natural beauty, or it might be for a much needed rest from the stresses of daily…