European Travel Destinations
The Sagrada Familia is Spain’s most visited attraction with 4.8 million visitors per year. We had to book our tickets several weeks in advance and it did not disappoint. Practically speaking, it is a Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain,…
After spending nine days in Southern Portugal we drove east into Spain, where we spent the next five weeks staying in six different locations moving counterclockwise along the coast: Rota, Solobrena, Estepona, Sant Joan de Alacant, Valencia and Castelldefels. Along…
During our week in Rota, Spain in late May, we drove 90 minutes south to visit the tiny country of Gibraltar for a few hours. We parked on the Spanish side and then walked across the border – and also…
After spending two weeks on the island of Madeira we flew back to Lisbon where we picked up a leased car and headed south on what is going to be a six week journey around the southwest, south, and east…
Our trek from Mérida, Mexico started on the last day of April and took us to the Portuguese island of Madeira via the airports of Mexico City, Paris, and Lisbon. The trip was long and the jet lag lingered for…
We departed Europe via a cruise ship, the Celebrity Equinox, out of Lisbon, Portugal for a one-way Trans-Atlantic crossing (“repositioning cruise”) to South America. We had figured out that the cost was about the same as flying and we could…
We flew from Malta to Porto, Portugal in mid November to connect with friends coming off of a river cruise. The four of us stayed in an Air BnB in the heart of Porto and explored the city and surrounding…
We flew from Athens to the small island nation of Malta in mid October, where we stayed for just over a month. Given that we had just moved 9 times in 7 weeks, we were ready to settle in a…
After six nights in Montenegro, we flew to Athens where we spent a week. We spent three days of that with some close family friends who were passing through enroute to join their cruise ship. We stayed in a hotel…
After a week in Dubrovnik, we hired a taxi service to take us the 100 km (65 miles) to Kotor, Montenegro, where we spent six nights in the first week of October. It cost about $130 more than taking a…