“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert We have been talking about it for the...

“To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of...

“MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that...

March 14, 2022 “There is no beginning too small” - Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has ever read these postcards from our travels knows...

March 13, 2022 “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” - Agnes Repplier Trains really are wonderful things. ...

March 10-12, 2022 “To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” - St Teresa of Avila...

March 8-9, 2022 “We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we...

March 7, 2022 “I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown…….These people are very unskilled in...

March 4-5, 2022 “Wow, oh wow!” -Colleen Dobbs - watching the countryside as we drove through Andalucia. In order to gain some...

March 3, 2022 "Look round, my boys, and view how beautiful the Rock appears by the light of the glorious fire.” -George Augustus Eliott...

March 2, 2022 “The spectacle of this city, sitting on the bulk of two rocks rent asunder by a pickaxe and separated by the narrow, deep...

March 1, 2022 “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” ― Ernest...

February 26-28, 2022 “Just as the American image of Germany is Bavaria, the Yankee dream of Spain is Andalucia. This is the home of...

February 24-25, 2022 “The truth is, that I’m beginning to wonder if there is any greater pleasure in life than visiting Granada. …and it...

February 23, 2022 “On such heavenly nights I could sit for hours at my window inhaling the sweetness of the garden, and musing on the...

“ An older woman was in a store looking at a mirror. “ I used to be young and beautiful’, she lamented sadly. A nearby customer overheard...

“Beautiful !” - Our waiter at our first restaurant we stopped at with each item I ordered. (It was) It has been almost two years ago...

“The current state of everyone staying home is clearly untenable — for sanity, the economy and other reasons. But flipping a switch and...