Autonomous Community Spotlight: Las Islas Canarias
Not one to make travel goals, I did make one when coming to Spain: visit all 17 autonomous communities at least once before going home. While Madrid, Barcelona and Seville…
Americana Overload: A Weekend at Road America
It's a family legend that my father took my mother to a swap meet on their first date. A blind date. Nancy, a sworn non-drinker, coped by downing piña coladas…
Spain Snapshots: The Guadalupe Monastery of Cáceres
Many great places in Spain are seeped in legends, mentioned in texts or venerated by the insane queues at its ticket offices (I'm looking at you, Alhambra). For me, the…
A Tenerife Road Trip
There is no greater freedom than windows down, music up and open road. On a recent trip to Tenerife - a volcanic island in the Atlantic that resembles a flat-based…
A Weekend at Trujillo Villas
I spent two nights sleeping next to Francisco Pizarro. Well, next to the house where the Conqueror of Peru grew up on the hardened plains of Extremadura in a small…
Tapa Thursdays: Eating at a Guachinche on Tenerife
Julie's plan had only three itinerary stops on my only full-day on Tenerife: Rental car. Teide. Guachinche :) Eager not to ruin my own surprise, I refused to give into…