End of the road: Blighty!
Technical difficulty — trying once again to go live with this. Wouldn’t you know: After all the technical difficulties I've suffered...
Nearing the end... Porto, Portugal
May 1, 2018 I’d wanted to go to Portugal ever since I first went to Spain, in 2006. Could have used more than 6 hours there! My Viking...
España, Part 2: Málaga
April 29, 2018 One of the oldest cities in the world, Málaga rose to be the capital of the Spanish Moorish region. It was one of the last...
The Continent! — Cartagena, España
April 28, 2018 The Continent, capital C, as in mainland Europe... because I’d already traveled around four other lower-case-c continents....
Alger La Blanche: In search of peace and beauty
April 27, 2018 My ‘Treasures of Algiers’ excursion promised to take me to ‘two beloved oases of peace and beauty.’ Today it has little of...
Yes, they eat sardines in Sardinia
April 26, 2018 Our second Mediterranean island (after Malta) was the Italian-ish Sardinia, to differentiate it from the French-ish...
Marvelous Malta
April 24, 2018 Malta is not very large, and I was on foot so I saw only a bit, but what I saw is breathtakingly gorgeous. After several...
Egypt, the Magnificent
April 18-21, 2018 If you’re like me, you were about 8 when you first saw the Pyramids of Giza, maybe in a TV cartoon, maybe in a photo in...