After touring the Alhambra (pictures of which you can see in my previous post here) I found my way to the gardens and the perfect end to the day.But there was so much more than just the gardens – from this vantage point you can see much of the city and the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range. You’ll see more pictures of each throughout this … Continue reading The Alhambra Gardens
From Córdoba, I took a bus to Granada because I wanted to see the famed Alhambra. I didn’t know much of anything about Granada, really, but knew I wanted to see that. It turned out that Granada was truly a lovely city that, like so many others, I’d love to see again and spend much more time in.I’ll have some pictures from around Granada for … Continue reading The Alhambra ~ Granada, Spain
Germany and Marrakech? An odd pairing, no? I didn’t plan to travel around Germany much…. maybe next time. My reason for going there at all was to visit my friend, Michelle. She and I met while working at a horrible office job in California. We both hated our jobs, loved knitting and traveling and felt we’d found a kindred spirit. For whatever reason people connect, … Continue reading Germany & Marrakech
In my last post I said there were two main reasons I was interested in visiting Bruges. One had to do with having seen the movie In Bruges and being captivated by the city’s architecture. The other had to do with lace and that’s what this, my third and final post on Bruges, is about. Well, at least for starters. The lace center – the … Continue reading Bruges, Part 3
So, why Bruges? The first of two main reasons is that Bruges is a world-renowned center of lace-making. I mean real lace. Not machine-made, not crochet, not tatting. Lace. I wanted to see it being made because it’s a rare and specialized skill that takes years and years of practice to perfect. However…… That’s not what this blog post is about. The other reason I … Continue reading Bruges, Part 2
As I wrote in my recent post on London, I took a train from St. Pancras Station to Bruges, Belgium. I’ve decided to write at least two, if not three, posts on Bruges because I took a lot of pictures. I just couldn’t stop myself. In this post I hope to give you at least a small taste of the visual treasures there are in … Continue reading Bruges, Belgium
While going through photos for this post, I came across one that rightly should have gone in my last post about Bournemouth. This panoramic shot obviously distorts the shape of the coastline, but in it you can see the Isle of Wight way out there to the left and the Purbecks over to the right. It’s easy to see how these two outposts of the … Continue reading Bournemouth, Part 2
After a delayed flight from Boston due to the hurricane in the Atlantic, I arrived at Terceira, a small island in the Azores archipelago. It’s sort of in the middle of the Atlantic, but leaning to the east, off the coast of Morocco and Portugal. It ‘belongs to’ Portugal (a fact it would have behooved me to remember once I arrived in Portugal proper). It … Continue reading Terceira
Hello, there. It’s been a while. I’ve been in Northern California (mostly Oakland) since around the middle of March, staying at the home of my wonderful, beautiful, kind, generous friend, Lin. Often I’ve been planting and playing in her lovely garden or sewing or, from time to time, going out and about. You know, when you’re not ‘traveling,’ I mean really traveling – going to … Continue reading No Cal
I’ve been in Cusco, Peru seven days now. The first few days I just wandered around the city. I’ll give you my impressions of it in the next post. But this last Friday and Saturday I took two day tours to see a few sights outside Cusco. The tours were fairly inexpensive …. and perhaps I should have kicked out a bit more money for … Continue reading 2 Day Tours Outside Cusco, Peru
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