Category: SPAIN

  • D had business in Madrid on Thursday and Friday and we stayed the weekend.  We were lucky with beautiful days as the week before they had heavy rain all week.  But with beautiful skies comes crowds of people!     Colorful Streets Madrid has really colorful streets.  It is the capital of Spain and is…

  • This trip started as a business trip for D.  He had a conference in Madrid and then we were going to spend a several days in the south of Spain.  The conference was canceled due to the volcano ash, but since we had such cheap flights we went anyway and WOW was it a fabulous…

  • We'll start with this photo, D's favorite – it captures the flavor of our entire trip……great food, great wine….lots of fun!  We were gone for 11 days.  Except for the last two, we had blue skies with perfect weather in the low to mid 70's.  We did so many things and took so many photos…

  • Two train tickets to Paris……50 eurosBoutique hotel in trendy Paris neighborhood…….200 eurosWaking up knowing you can eat Parisian pastries for breakfast……..priceless! We spent Friday and Saturday in Paris —–  It is the land of the fashionable, beautiful people.  Oh yes, and women with the skinniest legs in the world!  I seriously think my calf is…