Modern looking Barcelona Airport Hotel. Photo © Nancy D. Brown When it comes to airport hotels, I have several requirements. The hotel must be conveniently located to the airport, it must offer clean, safe and affordable rooms with complimentary WiFi and it must offer complimentary shuttle service to the airport. Other hotel guests [...]
AC Hotel Palau de Bellavista lobby. Photo © Nancy D. Brown As we turned off the toll road, leaving France and heading toward the Costa Brava, we could see the hint of a city stretching before us. We had heard so many wonderful things about Girona, Spain. Our only regret is that we [...]
Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos I lobby. Photo © Nancy D. Brown Barcelona, Spain is a city of art, culture, wonderful site seeing and sensational food. When flying into this Spanish city, ease of getting from the airport to the hotel is often a factor I take into consideration when I'm traveling. While some [...]
Budget Friendly, Green European Travel Options Budget-friendly bicycles for rent in Seville, Spain “Are you looking for budget friendly ways to travel in Europe without harming the environment? I wrote this post for the Uptake blog and outlined some alternative forms of transportation. While Americans like to travel by automobile, in some parts of [...]
No one snoozed in the pews when visiting Santiago City’s church service. “It was theatrical,” marveled Lafayette’s Marcia Linn. “There were four monks harnessed in a basket that allowed them to work a pulley system to propel an incense burner filled with hot coals fifty feet into the air. Every day we saw hundreds of [...]
Nancy Brown with her mother Janet Mooers at Espani Fountain in Zaragoza, Spain circa 2007 Traveling with multi-generations THE TRAVELERS: Lafayette, California mom and consultant Nancy Brown, age 40-plus; and her mother, Janet Mooers, former Moraga resident and international traveler, age 80-plus. THE TREK IN A SEC: This mother-daughter duo was Barcelona-bound. [...]