Tweet 5/14/09 Okay, a fairly quick update. I’m not a big fan of Madrid…I didn’t see much of it, but here is the deal. I arrived at around 5 pm, went to my Couchsurfing host who had kindly left his keys under the door for me. Then I tried to take care of my paypal [...]

Tweet 4/4/09 In answer to the Rev’s assertion that it is nice to be in civilization I offer the following two photos of Sevilla’s beautiful waterfront….looks like the king needs to come here to. Despite the festivities planned here for Semana Santa, the idea of sticking around while groups of inquisition style monks move through [...]

Tweet 2/3/09 What they say about border towns is true. I know this. And yet last night, I put myself in the position of being in one again. What they say is this, in border towns you usually get robbed one way or another. And in the Spanish/Gibralter border town of La Linea Conception I [...]

Tweet 2/1/09 Ernest Hemingway wrote “How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!” and he is not the only artist to note the beauty and wonder that surrounds this place. Shakespeare said “Every inquisitive traveler keeps Granada in his heart, without having even visited it.” [...]

Tweet 1/31/09 The Rhythm in Spain is very different. I am getting used to it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is different. It seems to me that Spaniards wake up around noon, eat a light breakfast of bread and ham, and then set about their day. A second meal is eaten around [...]

Tweet 1/29/09 Next time I go to Alicante, I stay at the Popeye Pension I was astounded to walk down the street in Alicante when I was about to leave town. Long time readers may remember that several months ago I proposed that we start a new religion dedicated to Popeye, Yogi, and Felix. Well, [...]