Greetings from St Paul, Minnesota !!! We have been remiss about tending to our blog since our London post last January. In February, we drove […]
Castilla y León
We set out for Salamanca in the afternoon of Dec. 17. It wasn’t far, so we took a looping route through the Sierra de Francia […]
A Chamber Pot Fit For A King
Prior to leaving on this road trip we didn’t do much planning about where to stop en-route. Once Bayonne and Ourense were ticked off of […]
Knife Grinders of Galicia
On Thursday the 13th of December we drove from Cudillero on the Asturian coast to Ourense — the scenery along the coast is spectacular at […]
Cantabria
On the morning of Dec. 10, after our visit to the A’letelier Du Chocolate in Bayonne, we headed back to Spain and our next destination […]
Basque Provinces of France
Before visiting France in 2015 I asked a friend of mine who grew up in France — what should I see? He spent all of […]
Vienna to Malaga
On 11 October we parted from our friends Jon & Deb — we each took trains from Prague to different parts of Austria. Teresa and […]
Cartographic Oddity
In early September our friends Theresa and Forrest were planning a trip to France, and we decided to visit them for a few days. To […]
The Oldest Lighthouse
In late June Teresa, Clara and I took a road trip from Granada, through the Rio Douro valley of Portugal and up the coast of […]
The Kids Come for a Visit
On June 13th Amelia, Ryan and Clara arrived and our friend Jerry departed. We had a great time showing the kids our neighborhood, Barcelona and […]