December 14 Day 64 Oh my gosh. What a day this was! First lesson: Roses grow in packed mud. Thrive, actually. Stop fussing. First stop: Madinat Al-Zahra. An archeological treasure found west of the city. It’s the Palace of the first Caliph of Al-Andalus. Abd al-Rahman III. No slouch, this guy. Constructed from the year…
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December 13 Day 63 Unrestrained Christmas Cheer in Málaga. This evening was my present. It started out like this. He’s such a good guy. Any city with a dog in their Christmas decorations is all right with me! We had some great Tapas in a lively atmosphere! A colorful decoration in a city neighborhood. Wouldn’t…
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Gibraltar Redux. (Our first trip is on the blog.) Joe’s here! Yay! And he wanted to see Gibralter! This marks the Pillars of Hercules. There’s another peak just across the Mediterrain Sea/Straits of Gibraltar facing this one. We visited St Michael’s Cave again. This time looking down. Our taxi tour guides took us to the…
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Hi Reader! Its Dec 12 Day 62 Hey! We found some festivities and I finally caught a cold… I think the cold was in the crowd at this Flamenco Recital we stumbled upon. These girls were adorable! These girls were very serious. The beauty in front kept giving her Mom the stink eye for being…
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December 9 Day 59 K It’s raining. Pretty windy and cold actually. So we are staying home today. The internet is sketchy too, as I already did this post once. And lost it. So I really hope this one is as funny and entertaining as the first one was…. I thought I would post some…
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December 6 ( traveling day) Day 56 Zahara is east of Ronda. South of Seville. We gained about 2,000 feet in elevation on this drive. Zahara is a city above a resoirvoir with the obligatory castle on a rocky outcropping. We drove to the top of the hill, advice given to us in Lisbon, by…
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December 6, (travelling day) Day 56 We made it to a couple of the “White Villages” in the mountains of the Sierra in Southern Spain. There are lots of White Villages tucked into mountainsides. From Catalina Island to Mexico to Central America to Portugal, this is the way people tuck into the hills. We wondered…
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December 2 Day 52 Faro, Portugal Hello Dear Reader, This trip has been great! Our brains are so stretched that we are sleeping very well at night. And some afternoons! But not this day. This day we learned that you can’t rent a car in Portugal and return it in Spain. So Tony rented another…
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