Life's about experiences. These are mine.
The last day of our cruise and we were back in our starting port of Palma. We’d arrived so late in the evening last week we hadn’t had an opportunity to explore before but intended to put that right today. There is a magnificent looking cathedral in Palma and we intended to go there and …
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As time goes on and remember that I have been doing this for over 14 years, it gets increasingly difficult to find new and interesting things to say about places, particularly when they are as small as Cartagena. Therefore, today I am going to talk about pavements. Marbelous Most places we visit have pretty boring …
The Costa-del-sol gets a bad wrap so visiting Malaga made me wonder just what it would be like but I needn’t have worried as, spoiler alert, it was beautiful. We didn’t know much about the town other than it was the birth place of Picasso and had a museum dedicated to him here. We got …
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I’ve never been to Gibraltar before but many of our friends have and the universal feeling seems to be one of the ”meh” so I was interested to find out for myself. A Little Slice of Home It was baking in Gib and we had a long walk to the start of the town. We …
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The boat (or is it a ship?) is today making its only stop outside of Spain, well, unless you consider Gibraltar to not be in Spain, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Looking back at these blog entries there is no mention of Lisbon which means that the last time we came here must have …
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After spending all-day yesterday trapped on the boat (or “at sea” as Tui prefer to call it) I was glad to get off today and back onto terra firma. The Hidden Amphitheater Port of call today was Cadiz, somewhere that we haven’t been before so I was looking forward to paying it a visit. After …
We went on our first cruise to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary some 23 years ago now. We didn’t consider ourselves to be natural cruisers but the ship was going places we wanted to go, stopping somewhere new every day. We’d treat it like a floating hotel we said and we did. But we enjoyed …
With just a morning left in Madrid, we decided to check out one of the museums here. Madrid is famous for its triangle of art museums, including the Prado but we knew that what that holds is not really for us. Therefore, we decided to visit the Reina Sofia, the museum of contemporary art, particularly …
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Having spent yesterday looking at the architecture of Madrid, today was spent in its parks. Before we could step out of the hotel though we had to prepare ourselves for the “Severe Weather” that was being predicted by our weather app. This included the slightly worrying “Possible threat to life or property”. Turned out that …
Continue reading “Madrid 2023 – Day Three – Changing of the Guard”
Today we did as we always do when visiting a new city – we pounded the streets walking between sights. We meandered from the hotel to the large square, Plaza Mayor. We’d eaten there last night, at one of the many tapas bars that line the edge but today we could see it in all …
Continue reading “Madrid 2023 – Day Two – Yellow Coats and Sonic the Hedgehog”