If we have a transcendent experience at one cave, shouldn’t we expect a transcendent experience at the next? What if the next cave is a…
Sometimes we make travel mistakes. Our most recent? Arriving in Bordeaux on April 30, and crashing thoughtlessly into a deep sleep. Why was that a…
It may sound quite taxing to bring you this digest of pintxos in San Sebastian: Thirty-six hours Ten stops Twenty-five pintxos. Drinks? Quite a few….
Similar to tapas, pintxos are Spanish bar snacks, popular in Basque cities and the Navarra region, and taken to high culinary art in food-forward cities…
As unlikely as a shimmering pearl nestled in a barnacle-encrusted oyster shell, the Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry, has transformed the once distressed,…
At the intersection of Calle de Pelayo and Calle de Fruela where old town Oviedo meets new town, you are greeted the instant you set…
I love gin. I love gin and tonic. The Spanish love gin and tonic even more than I do. As a person raised where juniper trees…
My spouse loves fire. She lights our dinner table with candles (Back in the days when we had a house and a dinner table. And…
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…
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