A Travel Blog
We met our tour group on the evening before we set off for Granada and were relieved – not that we really expected anything different – to find ourselves with a congenial group comprising four couples from Australia (including one, similarly aged to us, from Canberra), and four single women (two Australian, one Kiwi and … Read more
We spent our last day in Madrid doing chores – like laundry and postage – and exploring some of the city sights. Parks and Gardens Madrid is a beautiful city full of wide streets, squares (though we’d call them circles), and parks and green spaces. We love visiting parks and gardens, so chose two to … Read more
One of the reasons we did the Paseo del Arte three-museum ticket was because we wanted to spend one day out of Madrid. That may sound silly to some of you – there’s so much to see in Madrid – but one of the things we enjoy most about travelling is exploring hinterlands and small … Read more
Travelling technologically As we headed out for Day 2 in Madrid, we were thinking that we’d start the day’s blog by saying how much we’re enjoying travelling electronically – travel guides on the iPad, books on the kindle, digital camera – and so on. Although there are cables and connectors to worry about, we feel … Read more
Watching the landscape as we flew into Madrid in the middle of the day, I was reminded of Margaret Preston‘s Flying over the Shoalhaven. Different landscape, really, but there was something about the patchy colour and the scattered vegetation that was very reminiscent. Perhaps though it was all in my imagination and was simply about … Read more