Yesterday when we were visiting the Gaudí house, as you may have read, I slid down a spiral staircase several steps. I was wishing we had taken a photo of that staircase. But found this one online: I had a feeling I’d done something to my right knee. I could walk ok so was hoping
On this trip, we’ve enjoyed spending an hour or two in the late afternoons in a bar blogging and catching up on email. We usually have a decaf. The bar was nearly empty when we came but now it is nearly full. I think because it is too windy and cold for people to sit
Tonight we are in Comillas. According to the sign at the beginning of town, it is “one of the most beautiful towns in Spain”. We are charmed by it. Antoni Gaudí, of Barcelona cathedral fame, designed a house for a rich lawyer here. It is called El Capricho de Gaudí, which means “Guadí’s Whim.” We
The above large beautiful church (iglesia in Spanish) was in the tiny town of La Iglesia. Below we see it after leaving town. In the next tiny town we saw this tiny church: To our surprise, it was open. So, we went inside. It had some beautiful, I think new, stained glass. Joe, you would
Today on the walk we passed this mailbox. The photo hides it but it was mounted on a pole at about the height of a typical US rural mailbox. But note that it was pointed upwards instead of sideways so it caught my attention. And it looked like a typical rural US mailbox. Then I
The past two days especially, we’ve seen some stunning churches. I showed photos of the romanesque church in Santillana del Mar yesterday. I’ll post some photos below of churches we passed today. It amazes me how low key people here are about these magnificent buildings. In the US they’d be major tourist attractions, I think.
Since we arrived in Spain on April 9, we have stayed in 16 different hotels (aka pensions, apartamentos, etc.) I’m pretty sure every room we have been in has had a television. (A few were tiny tiny televisions.) We have yet to turn one on. We’ve tried watching TV on past trips in Spain, but
I think we posted a photo very much like the above in 2018. We stayed in Santillana del Mar on that Camino walk but went a few miles past it today. It’s a beautifully-preserved very old town. Quite lovely. It doesn’t feel like a “real” town. It’s essentially a museum with quite a number of