Spain

The best food I had in Seville, hands down, was at a little tapas place around the corner from my hotel called Taberna Colonials (do click on this website link –…

I said in my previous post that this post would cover my Spain “happy place”…  And it will. I was talking about Seville’s Royal Palace, the Real Alcázar.  I’m sure…

I’m a bit of a water baby, so when I decided to head out for some major sightseeing in Seville, no wonder then that I ended up heading straight to…

It was a short 2 1/2 hour train ride from Madrid to Seville’s Santa Justa train station.  I was sitting next to a very chatty Spanish guy, but I didn’t mind,…

I spent most of my time in two areas of Madrid:  Old Madrid and Bourbon Madrid.  And the really cool thing was, from where I was based (Puerta del Sol),…

Usually when I get to a new city, I kick things of with some major sightseeing.  But in Madrid, I kicked things off with some major eating! (followed by some…

From San Sebastián, I hopped on a train and headed back down to Madrid.  Sadly that same day also saw one of Spain’s worst rail disasters in almost 70 years, one…

On my second day in San Sebastián, I decided to take an alternative route over into Old Town, so I could walk through the lower parts which eventually leads you…

So why would I travel by train, all the way up north to go to a little place called San Sebastián?  Well… my trusty Eyewitness Travel guide refers to it…

We used Foursquare quite extensively in Barcelona to help us find good eating & drinking spots.  It’s a really awesome app… This is a roundup of the interesting spots we…