Santiago de Compostela – Spain’s most Romantic and Historic City

I have arrived here 4 days before Pope Benedict XVI.  Like me, it will be his first visit to what is considered to be the 3rd most sacred city in Christianity (behind Jerusalem and Rome…remarkably I will have visited all 3 this year after I visit Rome in a few weeks).  He, of course, will get…

Sevilla!

Glee is the only word that I can find to describe how I felt when my bus pulled into the Sevilla bus station 2 days ago.  This city holds so many fond memories for me from the time I studied here for 3 1/2 months as a junior in college and  from the last time I visited 2 years ago. …

Danger! I am now in Europe! :)

The minute I ported on in Tarifa, Spain I felt my checking account starting to drain.  I get weak in the knees for all things European…particularly the shopping, food and wine….and now I am here for an entire month! Dios Mio!!  Any budget I tried to assemble prior to this trip might as well be shredded right…

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From Algeria to Morocco

I learned this past 10 days that travel companions are not condusive to consistent blog posts :)!!!  Inch’allah I will do better going forward 🙂 This morning I said good-bye to Algeria and experienced my first rain fall there.  It was tremendous!  Streets were overflowing with water and the highway was a a stand still…