Glenn Dobbs
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“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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 20, 20224 min read
Eating with Picasso
“To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 18, 20225 min read
Melting in the Rain
“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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 15, 20224 min read
The Mezquita
March 14, 2022 “There is no beginning too small” - Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has ever read these postcards from our travels knows...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 14, 20223 min read
The Train to Cordoba
March 13, 2022 “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” - Agnes Repplier Trains really are wonderful things. ...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 12, 20223 min read
The Rain in Spain…and QAnon
March 10-12, 2022 “To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.” - St Teresa of Avila...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 10, 20224 min read
Paseo Scenes
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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 9, 20225 min read
The Ghost of Chris
March 7, 2022 “I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown…….These people are very unskilled in...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 8, 20224 min read
De La Frontera
March 4-5, 2022 “Wow, oh wow!” -Colleen Dobbs - watching the countryside as we drove through Andalucia. In order to gain some...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 7, 20226 min read
Nulli Expugnabilis Hosti
March 3, 2022 "Look round, my boys, and view how beautiful the Rock appears by the light of the glorious fire.” -George Augustus Eliott...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 3, 20222 min read
Ronda
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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 2, 20223 min read
La Corrida
March 1, 2022 “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” ― Ernest...
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Glenn Dobbs
Mar 1, 20223 min read
The Day of Andalucia
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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Feb 26, 20223 min read
Laundry and other amazing sights
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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Feb 25, 20225 min read
The Alhambra
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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Feb 23, 20224 min read
Some Stories
“ 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...
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Glenn Dobbs
Feb 22, 20224 min read
"The moving walkway..."
“Beautiful !” - Our waiter at our first restaurant we stopped at with each item I ordered. (It was) It has been almost two years ago...
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Glenn Dobbs
Feb 7, 20223 min read
Opening the Bunker Door
“The current state of everyone staying home is clearly untenable — for sanity, the economy and other reasons. But flipping a switch and...
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