A Travel Blog
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
Another warm day in Seville, though we think the temperature only got to the mid 30°s C . Today was a free day, Intrepid-tour-style. That means the tour leader gives you some ideas of what to see or do, and you make your own choices. For most of us that was to visit the Alcazar … Read more
Before leaving Granada, we wanted to check out the sculpture of Queen Isabella with Christopher Columbus. It apparently commemorates not the approval given to Colombus to explore the New World, but his support of the edict to expel the Jews (in 1492). Oh dear! Whatever, the statue is an important part of Spanish history and … Read more