Category Airbnb/VRBO
Europe 2025 – Majorca (Mallorca), Part One
May 15 – 18 After seeing Beverly off to the airport, Francois, Joanna and I took our own taxi to Barcelona International for our one-hour flight on Ryan Air to Palma (Parma), the capital city of the island of Majorca (Mallorca). Our round-trip fare would run $332 which also included one checked bag and the […]
Europe 2025 – Barcelona, Part Three
May 12 – 14 Placa de Sant Jaume is set at the intersection of ancient Barcino’s main thoroughfares, and this square was once a Roman forum and is home to the he Palace of the Generalitat of Cataloni, an historic palace that for more than six centuries has housed the offices of the Presidency of […]
Europe 2025 – Barcelona, Part Two
May 12 – 14 Having finished lunch, we went outside and caught a taxi to take us closer to where the Picasso Museum (Museu Picasso) is located. One nice thing about Barcelona is that it is a taxi town. Uber does operate there but the black and yellow city taxis are ubiquitous, and can sometimes […]
Europe 2025 – Barcelona, Part One
May 12 – 14 Our final drive of the trip with Bev would take four hours or more as we needed to drop the rental car off at the Barcelona International Airport and then take a taxi into town and to our Airbnb, the Excellent Modernist Apartment, located in a nice neighborhood full of amenities. […]
Europe 2025 – Zaragoza
May 10 – 11 Our four hour drive to Zaragoza went smoothly and upon landing, it took us a bit of time to locate our Airbnb, the Cozy apartment with views and a large parking space, as it was in a high-rise complex where we had to temporarily park the car on the street and […]
Europe 2025 – Salamanca, Part Two
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 […]
Europe 2025 – Salamanca, Part One
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 […]
Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part Three
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 […]
Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part Two
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 […]
Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part One
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 […]
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