Spain

Leaving Salamanca for Madrid we took a detour through Segovia, on the recommendation of a friend.  It was an amazing stop admiring the huge aqueduct Read more →

We arrived in Salamanca late afternoon and by the time we got settled into our latest apartment we were rewarded with the above view from our dining room window.  Read more →

Seville is Spain’s 4th largest city with a population of approx 700,000 and capital of the autonomous community of Andalucia.  The Guadalquivir River cuts the city in half Read more →

Leaving Granada our travel time to Estepona was only 2 hours so we took some detours along the way to visit a few of the top rated pubelos blancos (white villages).  Our first detour took an hour driving on a road clinging to the mountainside, climbing ever higher in the Sierra Nevada’s where 3 white villages are located one after the other.  Read more →

Our drive from Valencia to Granada took us just over 5 hours and once again we passed miles and miles of orange groves and olive groves.  Heading inland and with increasing elevations the landscape became dry and desert looking with cactus growing along the roadside.  Read more →

Leaving Barcelona late morning on December 24th the drive was a pleasant 3.5 hour journey past mile upon mile of orange groves to the outskirts of Valencia, Spain’s third largest city.  Valencia’s port is the busiest container port in the Mediterranean and was visible for miles as we drove South along the coast.  Read more →