Madrid: art and more art
I’m home now. I guess I will do a retrospective post on my entire three-month journey, but first I should share a little about my five nights in Madrid.
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Granada: The culmination of a three-month journey
I’m currently on .a train from Granada to Madrid. I wasn’t supposed to be on a train. I was supposed to be on a plane, and if I were, I’d have arrived by now. But I’m on a train. (I’ll explain why later.) This at least gave me the opportunity to organize my photos from Granada…
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Wholly Toledo
I spent three nights in Toledo at the tail end of the third and final OAT tour of this three-month excursion in Iberia and Morocco. All that’s left are Granada (where I am now as I write this) and Madrid. A week from today I go home. Since I’ve allowed two days to pass since I…
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Úbeda: Olives and a Synagogue
Úbeda is not a place that was ever on my radar when I was planning my trip to Spain. If I weren’t on this tour with OAT, I never would have gone to Úbeda. It turns out that it was a highlight of this trip for one special reason: the Sinagoga del Agua. We also visited…
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Ronda: Bridges and other things
Today is day 76 of my 89-day travel marathon. I’ve been struggling to keep up with the blog, and moreso now because I’m having a hard time thinking of interesting ways to write about each place I visit. So although Ronda, where I spent about a day and a half, was delightful and photogenic, I…
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Mérida and Carmona
In Mérida I learned about how Mérida got its name (and also how Mérida, Yucatan, got its name). And in Carmona I enjoyed a hike. Here’s a little more
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Portugal after Porto
I’m so far behind in blogging that I’m not even going to try to catch up. I’m just going to summarize the last five days in Portugal and share my photo albums. It seems a suitable approach, because so much of the last five days felt too fast, with whirlwind visits to places I would…
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A week in Porto, plus Arouca, plus Coimbra
Yesterday I met my sister’s friend, Luke, and he asked me what was the highlight of my visit to Porto. I struggled to come up with one, but I finally said it was just such a delight to experience the cityscape from different viewpoints. Porto doesn’t impress with any one spectacular thing. There’s no glorious…
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Northern Portugal and the Douro Valley
There was wine. There’s a lot more to write about the two days we spent in northern Portugal and the Douro Valley, but for some reason, it’s mostly a blur. I remember there was some beautiful scenery and two delightful towns where we stopped on the way from Santiago de Compostela. I remember we went on…
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Galicia, Spain: Santiago de Compostela and more
It wasn’t a genuine pilgrimage, since the vast majority of it was by bus. But starting in France, I made my way (with my tour group) across northern Spain, and we arrived in Santiago de Compostela feeling more or less like pilgrims. We spent three nights there and got to see some other parts of…
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San Sebastian to Pamplona to León: Starting on the Camino
I have too much to catch up on since leaving Bilbao and arriving in León, so I’m just going to give an overview and share some favorite photos from the last few days.
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Bilbao and Gernika
After a few days in France, I’m back in Spain (for the third time on this trip). In Bilbao, where I spent three nights, I met the full group I’ll be traveling with until we get to Porto. I’m now in Pamplona, so before I get too far behind, I want to share just a…
