It’s hard to know where to start but I’ll go with the eye emergency room so you don’t all freak out. I am okay – life with an autoimmune issue means that stuff comes up and I try to be prepared. But last night, an eye issue that’s been bugging me the past few weeks […]
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Evidence in support of my love for Bilbao
I know I’m going to lose all credibility by admitting that – after gushing about Cuenca and Burgos – now I’ve fallen in love with Bilbao. In my defense, I’ve wanted to visit Bilbao for years – the rest of these cities have been surprises. Bilbao is a scrappy city – by the 1980s it […]
Completely in love with Cuenca…wait…and Burgos
Cuenca, population 52,000, sits at 3200 feet – a hill town on a ridge between the Jucar and Huecar rivers. It’s 100 miles from Madrid. The Old Town – a ten-minute curving drive from the New Town – has to be one of the most spectacular villages in Spain. This is the view as we […]
Apologies to you, my tour group, and a final Madrid post
First of all, I would like to apologize for misinforming everyone on my tour about my age. Someone caught me off guard by asking when I wasn’t prepared…many of us do not hold this type of information in our heads…and so I supplied an age that is close to my actual age but not my […]