On one of the walls of the prehistoric cave El Castillo located in the province of Cantabria in northern Spain are 7 distinctly painted tectiforms: misshapen rectangles some, inset with another rectangle that is lined. There are two other vague ones floating horizontally on the lower right and then one more vertical one, barely visible,…
I fell in love with Spain for zillions of reasons, not the least of which was I was on vacation so the rules of daily life were suspended. And with vacation comes discovery and adventure and plans that go awry and our day in Burgos had a wonderful little bit of all that. Burgos…
We left Burgos on Monday March 6, heading north to Santillana del Mar, our base for a full day of paleolithic cave viewing on Tuesday. Something I had planned the entire trip around- when the caves would be open for tours. We also planned to see El Capricho, the second home Gaudi built/designed for a…
After 2 days of meandering about Madrid, we picked up our rental car and drove about 90 minutes north eastish. The autostrada on this Friday was open and empty and we saw green pastures on our sides and snow capped mountains in front as we whipped along to the medieval walled city of Avila. We…
On Day 6, we decided we could no longer recycle our clothes; we had to find a laundromat because it was just ridiculously expensive to have the hotel do our laundry. We googled and found one conveniently located near to the old town of Tavira. I had quality time to shop while Steve noodled on…
We left Alvor on Tuesday November 16 to spend the day in Faro, the capital of the Algarve. We entered the “cidade velha”, underneath the imposing arch that acts as an usher for the the narrow cobbled streets and heavy hinged doors that characterize the medieval essence of the old town, all of which is…
