Spain 2024

NOTE: Yes, we have been home for a week. Just catching up on the blog. Knowing that we would be sitting down for a long, l-o-n-g time from mid-afternoon today we decided that we should take a decent walk this morning so that we would, at least, achieve our Exercise goal today. We walked to […]

NOTE: During the night I have come down with a head cold (very bad timing!) so after visiting the sites listed I don’t have the energy to write the travel diary properly. I might write it enroute to Dubai and post from there. Then again, I might not get the story told until we are home

Today is a public holiday which I think is a necessity after last night’s festivities. Fireworks were being let off until well after midnight celebrating St John’s Night and the Shortest Night of the year, so I don’t think anyone got much sleep? Most of the fireworks were in the background but every so often

… and this morning Bernie worked out how the exterior roller shutters at our apartment worked! It would have been good to know that on Thursday and then we could have had the shutters down to keep the bedroom dark for the last three mornings when first light was at 6.00am??! We have fancy electrically

This morning, our first stop was at the Mercat Central which is just around the corner from our apartment but closes at 3.00pm so we’ve missed it the last two days. Today we decided to make it a priority to make sure we did not miss out on visiting Europe’s largest fresh produce market because

I forgot to mention that yesterday when we arrived the Internet situation was less than ideal. When Bernie collected the key, he was given the Internet password – it was wrong. They had provided it all in UPPER CASE so Bernie typed it in as supplied. Nope, password incorrect. Bernie thought, I just wonder if

On the move again today. With our train to Valencia not until 1.15pm we took our time having breakfast and re-packing our suitcases. Checkout was at 11.00am so we stretched that to the limit leaving the building at about 10.50am. When we checked in Irene told us that when we left, we would not need

This morning, we caught the Metro from Sol to Ventura Rodríguez then walked to the VPT office near Templo de Debod. We checked in and were given our boarding pass for the coach to Toledo. We walked over to the bus stop that had been pointed out to us to wait for the coach to

We did our ABCs today. Art, Basilica, Crypt … with a couple of other activities thrown in for good measure. This morning, we set off to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza part of Madrid’s ‘Golden Triangle of Art’. When we visited the Prado on Sunday, we purchased a combined ticket entitling us to visit the Prado, the

Today we took a coach tour to Ávila and Segovia. We really wanted to see the outstanding Roman aqueduct at Segovia and had planned to do a day trip on our own by train. However, Bernie found a guided day trip that we could do by coach that would take us to both Ávila and