Travels with Valerie

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m here in Madrid and I just love it! It’s a bustling, buzzing, beautiful city. Here are 3 pictures taken from the single block of my hotel on the Gran Via: Quick food break: I had my best meal of the trip right next door to the hotel at a place called Honest Greens – […]