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Continue reading →: local, cheap, and good!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday I was just thinking about a new blog post to catch up on the last couple of years. As I flipped through photos and memories I couldn’t quite decide where to begin; Naples, Portugal, Switzerland or Granada. In the evening my new roommate/adopted daughter was talking about the dishes…
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Continue reading →: More Pieces of My Granada………..
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon We all have places in this world…
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Continue reading →: Passion, Port and the Douro Valley
The Douro Valley in Portugal is known for its prolific wine production which is eventually taken to Vila Nova de Gaia near the city of Porto and stored in the wine cellars. Traditionally the wine was transported there by “rabelos”, a cargo boat native to the Douro region. The microclimate in…
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Continue reading →: memories of summertime……………………
Finally a moment to sit down and reflect on the past year. It is amazing how time flies when we are busy and running about from place to place. In the past few months on tour I have had many a day when I thought of what a beautiful summer…
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Continue reading →: Illegal in Lisbon……………
One of my favorite past times is researching restaurants. Local and traditional are important to me especially to recommend great places to my guests so that they can enjoy good food in non touristic places. But, for myself and my family I love to find the best Chinese, Mexican, Thai,…
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Continue reading →: Slow food and slow life…………
My partner said he wanted me to have some genuine rest and relaxation before beginning the busy Fall season and that he knew just where we should go for a week or so in August. So, we headed west from Madrid, spending one night in the beautiful city of Talavera…
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Continue reading →: Back home………more pieces of my Granada.
After realizing that we were not going to make it to the States this summer, we decided to pack up the van and head in direction of the French Pyrenees. We spent 30 days sleeping in the van in various parking lots of different towns, beaches and mountains. It is…
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Continue reading →: Tourist, Remember!
Some of my favorite coastline in the Basque Country is between Bilbao and San Sebastian on the Cantabrian sea. Zarauz is a relaxing village that comes to life in the summer offering excellent food and one of the longest beaches along the Cantabrian sea. Last year we spent a few…
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Continue reading →: The only way to survive this heat…………………..the beach!!!
We have been hitting record temperatures here in Granada the past few weeks. Having lived many years of my life in the desert of Arizona I can usually handle the heat but every year it gets more difficult. The last couple weeks have been brutal around here and the only…
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