Barcelona, Spain November 2018 Here are a few more photos of the Oceania Riviera from our trip from Barcelona, Spain to Miami, Florida. November 13-28, 2018. The Riviera has an amazing number of dining venues for a ship of its size. There's The Grand Dining Room, Terrace Café (the buffet), and the poolside Waves Gill. […]
Barcelona, Spain November 2018 A House that Gaudí Built – Actually, his first Gaudí’s First House: Casa Vicens, Carrer de les Carolines, 20-26 Barcelona, Spain…er Catalonia. Metro stop: L3 Fontana (Green line) https://casavicens.org/ After taking the Modernist Walking Tour with Rainbow Tours, I got to looking up more about the works of Gaudí in […]
November 2018 Montserrat The train to Monserrat takes about an hour or so. But before you go, you need to decide which way you’re going to get to the top of the mountain. There’s a gondola-style cable car (Aeri) and a train option (Cremallera) called a funicular. The cable car, or Aeri, is the quickest […]
13 November 2018 Oceania Cruises – M/V Riviera Embarkation Day – Here are a few photos of the ship as we started exploring this ship. Our home-away-from-home for two weeks. More details to come soon.
la Sagrada Familia November 2018 Barcelona Or more fully – The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família   What a perfect way to end our first walking tour. We managed to dodge the roaming showers around that day, coming out of the blue line subway stop to be stopped at the first sight […]
November 2018 Barcelona Ahead of our trip we booked two walking tours through Rainbow Barcelona Tours (http://rainbowbarcelona.com/), a LGBT owned and operated company in Barcelona. Our personal guide, Manu, met us at our hotel, The Hotel Casa Fuster, located on Passeig de Gràcia, at the outer edge of the Eixample district. Manu gave a great orientation […]
November 2018 Barcelona Here’s our second installment of photos from our short stay in Barcelona. We also took a day-trip up to Montserrat which was really quite amazing! More to come soon. Enjoy! – and post your comments. Tapas Walking Tour Montserrat
November 2018 Barcelona Modernist Architecture Walking Tour Check out our newest post at Barcelona Modernist Walking Tour Sagrada Familia Find our write-up at Barcelona – Sagrada Familia First Tapas Dinner More info coming soon.
Places We’ve Stayed at in Ireland Overview Dublin, Ireland – July 14 & 15, 2017 The Merrion 21-24 Upper Merrion Street http://www.merrionhotel.com Belfast, Northern Ireland – July 16, 2017 The Merchant Hotel 16 Skipper Street https://www.themerchanthotel.com Donegal, Ireland – July 17, 2017 The Sandhouse Hotel Rossnowlagh Beach, Co. Donegal http://www.shandhouse.ie/ Cong, Ireland – July 18-21, […]
Places We’ve Stayed at in Ireland Overview Dublin, Ireland – July 14 & 15, 2017 The Merrion 21-24 Upper Merrion Street http://www.merrionhotel.com Belfast, Northern Ireland – July 16, 2017 The Merchant Hotel 16 Skipper Street https://www.themerchanthotel.com Donegal, Ireland – July 17, 2017 The Sandhouse Hotel Rossnowlagh Beach, Co. Donegal http://www.sandhouse.ie/ Cong, Ireland – July 18-21, […]
My trip to Ireland, as mentioned in my posts about Virgin Atlantic, started out in London visiting friends Darren and Ian. The next leg was getting to Dublin to meet up with Kevin. I booked British Airways CityFlyer from London City airport to Dublin. Even though it was a short flight (less than 1 1/2 […]
Christmas Day, 2017 You all may remember our couple of posts from last year here and the one where we sous-vide our prime rib which I thought turned out great, Kevin was a little less pleased than I. So this year we got back to basics by slow roasting. Both, the sous vide and the roasting […]
