A Travel Blog
WARNING: Long post for a long day! Just look at the pictures if you like! Our second day in Lisbon, a free day meaning nothing was organised, was somewhat disappointing, not so much for what we did do but for what we didn’t. We made some strategic, in retrospect, mistakes, and so missed one sight … 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
Our prime mission on our second day in Granada was of course the Alhambra. You don’t go to Granada and not see the Alhambra … but first we ventured out for breakfast and, not surprisingly, ran into a bunch of our tour group already enjoying their coffee and croissants (or whatever). Anyhow … it was … Read more
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
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