Hiking in the Pyranees
Our first guided tour of the trip: a hike in the Pyranees, to see cliffs, waterfalls, and medieval villages. Gramma had found this wonderful “small group” tour company, and the group consisted only of the five of us, a couple…
La Sagrada Familia
This beautiful, incredible cathedral-in-progress (since 1882) probably speaks for itself, and has been professionally photographed by many others, so I’ll only share a few of my amateur shots. I was here in 1989, so on this visit I was baffled…
Los Juegos OlĂmpicos
We were finally able to watch some swimming live last night. Apparently, swimming is not something Spain excels in, and it has not been featured much on the two main stations carrying the Olympics here. But Spain hasn’t been excelling…
Somos cuatro, y abuelita hace cinco.
We are a family of four again, plus Grandma makes five. Arthur arrived Sunday morning. We dragged him out into the Gothic Quarter to explore, and captured some atmosphere shots, before we let him sleep. Woke him up again later…
Gaudi, Font Magica, and Nude Beaches
OK, not completely nude, but definitely some topless women. It was hard not to notice them, and it was hard not to notice my son noticing them. But the trip to Sitges, a beach town 30 minutes south of Barcelona…
La vida sin Internet!
We arrived safely in Barcelona, took the aerobus to the correct stop in the city, walked two blocks and found a large garage door with a tiny person-door nested inside that seemed to correspond to the address we were given….
At it again…
We leave in a few short days for Barcelona. I can’t believe the day is actually here; we planned this trip a year ago, to house swap with a family of five, but—at the time—July 2012 seemed like an eternity…
THREE WEEKS IN ENGLAND BLOG: Things I Don’t Want to Forget
We’re settled back into life at home: school is starting, back to work, back to doing all that normal stuff you do by rote. That’s what I love about traveling: Everything is new and different, and one can be so…
Final days
We all so enjoyed the National English Sheepdog Trials. It was just 30 minutes from our flat, and it was the first time we didn’t feel that we were having every tourist dollar sucked out of us. We felt more…
Struck down by a head cold.
I started coming down with something Tuesday and now, Saturday, am only starting to feel a bit better. But I’m afraid Anna may be getting it next! And if not that, then both kids have a sickness of another kind:…