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 might add inexpensive parking to the list of “must have” requirements, but …
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 had just 24 hours to experience this medieval city. We searched for affordable …
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 luxury travelers prefers taxis to public transportation, I’d rather spend my travel dollars …
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 …
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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. Janet Mooers, a recent widow, wanted to see a few more sights before she retired her passport. Daughter …
San Sebastian While “the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain” according to Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) in the 1964 film “My Fair Lady,” the rain in Spain that our tour group encountered fell mainly in the resort town of San Sebastian. As Hemingway reflected in “The Sun Also Rises”: “The trees seem …
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