When the lovely folks at Viking invited me on a Viking ocean cruise from Barcelona to Rome, of course, I said yes. Then the panic set in. I hate being on water, I can’t swim, and I’ve seen the movie Titanic too many times. I know what could happen. A...
A few years ago, Jonathan and I took a two-week river cruise with Viking from Budapest to Amsterdam, and we loved it. So, when Viking very kindly invited me on an ocean cruise onboard the Viking Sky from Barcelona to Rome – well, I wasn’t going to say no,...
Drone Photo of Zaragoza’s Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar or Nuestra Señora del Pilar We got to visit Zaragoza in Spain during August on our way to join our canal barge cruise in the south of France. At first, we just thought of it as a stopover, but we...
Photo of Avila, Spain On our recent trip to self-charter a canal barge on the Canal du Midi in France, we stopped for a night in the lovely old Spanish town of Avila. Avila, Spain, is located roughly halfway between Salamanca and Madrid and would make a great day trip...
Seville is one of our new favourite cities. We were only supposed to stop for one night on our way to Gibraltar but it turned into two, and we could happily have stayed longer. It’s a city best explored on foot, so we found a car park (no easy feat) close to our guest...
I have received several emails from people wanting to know specifically what we packed when we walked the Camino de Santiago what backpacks we used, etc., etc. This list will probably give you more information about our Camino walk than you want to know and I think we...
This is a short film I assembled from video and still images I shot with my iPhone 6S+ during our 30-day walk on the Camino de Santiago from St Jean Pier du Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain in May 2016. We had an amazing time on the “Way of...
Camino de Santiago: Day 29, O Pedrouzo, Spain Distance from O Pedrouzo to Santiago de Compostella, Spain 23.2 kilometers Given the nature of the weather in northern Spain in May, we had been extremely lucky while walking the Camino de Santiago but, it looked like on...
