Our Travels

Gibraltar is part of the United Kingdom and guards the entrance to the Mediterranean. During my time in the U.S. Navy, my ships passed through the entrance and the Rock of Gibraltar was a welcome site indicating we had successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean. The...

Spain has a marvelous high speed train system which is very reasonably priced. For a small increase in cost, you can sit in the first-class section, but to be honest the main difference is three seats per row versus four. We took the...

Staying in place like Sitio de Calahonda in Mijas, Spain validated our entire concept of living overseas. Where the El Campello rental was purely a beach house, the Mijas location was a beautiful home. Although only a one bedroom, one bathroom apartment we were extremely...

Four days in Cartegena was not enough. We thoroughly enjoyed walking the marble pedestrian streets of the city which were full of places to shop and eat. We did a boat tour of the harbor - the home of the Spanish Navy, went up to...

We arrived in Madrid Spain on April 1st to start our adventure. We used Tripadvisor to find a restaurant near our hotel. The restaurant had $$$$ for price so we were surprised when we got a plate of food (paella for me and bean/sausage stew...