A Travel Blog
It’s been hard for Sue not to think about Michelle de Kretser‘s Questions of travel as we’ve been traveling around. And this, our first full day in Biberach, brought de Kretser to mind and the character Laura. There’s a funny scene in India where she is asked where she’s going next and, after naming a … Read more
Today started our Modernism adventure proper, with two pre-booked guided tours of two rather different examples of Modernism or Modernisme. This is the style – primarily architectural but also involving other arts such as painting, sculpture, poetry, design and decorative arts – which occurred around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. It roughly equates with similar movements … Read more
But what a cathedral. First though, the start of the day. It was an earlyish start with the taxis arriving at 8am to take us to the station for our first train trip of the tour – and it was a long one, some 6 hours, across the north of Spain. It was drizzling for … Read more
We did feel a little guilty at swanning into Santiago de Compostela relatively, given our various lurgies, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed without the dust of the camino on our shoes – but not so guilty that we weren’t happy to be there! Cathedral Santiago de Compostela The main business of the morning was to visit the … Read more
This post should also be a short one as we spent half the day on the bus from Porto to Santiago de Compostela. Our tour group was happy to discover that we first had the morning in Porto to explore it a little more, having only had a half day the day before, as we’d … Read more