Celebrated two birthdays with friends. It was snowing so our friends were delayed, we were seated without them. That’s a big deal when the website clearly says all in the party need to be there to be seated and your table might be released after 15 minutes. Who knows if we just benefited from the […]
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Our Superbowl Snacks February 3, 2019 Our God Daughter, Megan, came over during the Superbowl so we needed a few snacks to have on-hand. Still being inspired by our trip to Spain, we decided to stick with the tapas style goodies. However, not ones to be confined to convention, we’ve adapted and combined several […]
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Barcelona November 9 - 13th, 2018 Casa Fuster Barcalona https://www.hotelcasafuster.com/en/ Hotel Casa Fuster recommended to us by Aurelio Giordano, of Ace World Travel, turned out to be the exact right fit for Steven and I. You can Google the Hotel Casa Fuster for a load of details, but what impressed us from the start was […]
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
