After two months in Spain, we had finally recovered from the constant travels of the previous six months enough to take another road trip. We hopped in the car and drove 5 1/2 hours to Portugal. We are living on Read more…
Jaen in Spain produces 20% of the world’s supply of olive oil. Jaen has more than 66 million olive trees, spread over 550,000 hectares. Jaen is located less than 2 hours north of us, so when we were invited as Read more…
Leading up to our trip to Barcelona, we were following the news on Catalonia’s independence movement very closely, since it was all happening around the time we had planned to be there. We waited until just the week before to Read more…
After 6 months on the road, we have settled in southern Spain for the winter (or forever?!). We are enjoying the sunshine, walkable city and low cost of living. Oh, and here is the view from our apartment. Needless to Read more…
The area of Provence in France is full of amazing Roman-era architecture. In fact, Provence is so-called because of its name in Roman times, Provincia Romania, since it was Rome’s first province beyond the Alps. Our first day trip, and our Read more…
“On the bridge of Avignon” or “Sur le pont d’Avignon” – you may be familiar with these songs. If so, I’m sure you are now singing them in your head. If not, go youtube it. We are partial to this Read more…
After spending every last Swiss Franc to our name, we hopped over the border and spent a few days in Colmar, France. Colmar is in the Alsace region, very close to the border with Germany. In fact, it has been Read more…
When we last left off, we were at the top of Mt. Titlis and it was starting to get crowded with tour groups. So, we hopped back on the cable car and headed down the mountain. But, instead of riding Read more…
Flying over glaciers, ice caves, hikes with mountain views, trails that have hammocks. If this wasn’t my favorite day of the trip, it is certainly in the top five! We booked a fairly inexpensive (for Switzerland!) Airbnb in the popular Read more…
We took a few trips to the mountains while we were in Switzerland, but we also did some cool stuff outside of the mountains. This post is about the other things we saw and did in Switzerland. Olympic Museum in Read more…