Tentale #1: Where do we eat octopus? Galicia. The Galicans are mad for octopus and other Spaniards travel to Spain’s northwest corner just to eat the…
“Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night.” Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon Travel-weary from an intercontinental ferry across the…
Our feet touch Spanish soil in Algeciras. Dusk is upon us when we debark and the dark is nearly complete by the time we’re out…
Our flight’s initial descent catches me off guard. My recent trips to India took nearly twice as long in air and, as the attendants make…
The Iberia flight from Chicago to Madrid is nothing if not a clear line of demarcation from the United States: A substantial airline meal, with…
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