October 18 – 27 We left Tombstone on a clear morning with blue skies that would follow us all day. We decided not to stop in the downtown area (if you could call it that) to see the tourist street, multiple blocks of recreated late 1870’s cowboy town playing off the famous shoot out at […]
May 8 – 9 Leaving Plaza de San Martin, we continued on what had now become familiar Calle Juan Bravo until we reached Plaza Mayor and decided to check out Restaurante Pandora for breakfast. It’s a busy place and so we were glad to get seated inside, ordering two breakfast specials, the first an Avocado […]
May 8 – 9 Our drive to Segovia would be another short one, but with nothing much to see on the way we stayed at the condo until check out time which would get us to our hotel right around check in time. The drive went well until we reached town and then we hit […]
May 6 – 7 We continued walking down Calle Rua Mayor on the way to the university and entered a triangular little square with a monument honoring maestro Francisco de Salinas, a blind musicologist who taught at the University in the 16th century, one of many former professors celebrated around town. In the square we […]
May 6 – 7 Our drive this day to Salamanca would take us roughly 2-3 hours and so, as with our drive to Madrid, we opted to seek out a diversion or two on the way, one being the Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the other, the Valley of the Fallen. When […]
Blog Post 12-21-2025 Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part Three May 3 – 5 To kill time after our Taco Bell snack we drifted in and out of some of the shops on Calle del Arenal and then walked over to the area where the flamenco venue was located. This took a little longer than it […]
May 3 – 5 After leaving La Mallorquina, we walked a short distance to Plaza Mayor, which dates to Madrid’s glory days, the 1600s. Back then, this, not Puerta del Sol, was Madrid’s main square. The equestrian statue (wearing a ruffled collar) honors Philip III, who made this square the centerpiece of the budding capital […]
May 3 – 5 As mentioned in the post before this one, the very short drive to Madrid offered us time to do some sightseeing on the way and so we decided to check out the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, one of the official residences of the Spanish royal family. Established in the 16th century […]
April 30 – May 2 We had two things on the agenda for the day, that would be to visit the Cathedral as well as trying to find a nice meal. With just those two things to do we loitered a bit at the apartment, getting caught up on chores (a bit of laundry, post […]
Perched strategically in the center of Iberia, Toledo was for centuries a Roman transportation hub. After Rome fell, Toledo became a Visigothic capital (AD 554). In 711 the Moors (Muslims) made it a regional center and because of its importance, Toledo was the first city in the crosshairs of Christian forces. It fell in 1085, […]
April 30 – May 2 We would have a fairly easy four-hour drive from Valencia to Toledo leaving us with some time for a side trip or two. Our first one was to detour to check out the Windmills of Campo de Criptana. Famous for being featured in the novel Don Quixote (“At this point […]
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