Photos of our Journey 23km (approx 9km for me) Leisurely breakfast and then we are off on our walks. The keen and faster walkers walk right from the hotel for their 14km journey to the lunch stop. Paul, Leslie & I opt for the less onerous walk and […]
Photos of our Journey La Faba to Triacastela – 19km (13 for me) Up by 7:00am and downstairs for breakfast at 8:00am, van loaded and depart by 9:30am. This is the routine for the next 5 days. We left Molinaseca and drove about 40 minutes through the beautiful green […]
Photos of our Journey Cecilia & I bounce out of bed around 7am and quickly get ready to go down for our 8:00am breakfast. Today is one of those incredible blue sky days and although the morning is a bit chilly, the forecast is for the high 20’s today. […]
Photos of our Journey Sept 22, 2017 – Ellen and I finally arrive from London (via Madrid) on time at 10:30pm. We quickly hailed a taxi and were checked in and to our rooms by 12:00 midnight. Cecilia, my roomie, jumped up to greet me and it was such […]
[slideshow] January 22 – 29 A whole week of absolute relaxation, dips in the pool, suntanning, and reading. Now this is what vacations are for, just ‘being’. After all we are human beings, not human doings!😂😂 I didn’t do a daily blog as the routine didn’t vary much each day. […]
[slideshow] January 18 Up early and looking forward to our trip to Santa Marta. We had a coffee downstairs and Skyped with Fero’s brother, Lubo & Elena, while we waited for the MarSol shuttle to pick us up. The puerta a puerta (door to door) service is excellent and not […]
[slideshow] Up early, today is the day we head back to the old city and take a Hop-on Hop-off tour to see a bit more of the area. We walked the 2km to town and waited for the bus to come by as we were early. A local fellow was […]
[slideshow] Our last day in Medellin and I will miss it – I quite like this city and could certainly spend more time here! Following breakfast we take a walk a little further into El Poblado district. Within a few blocks there are streets lined with disco, after disco and […]
[slideshow] Ahhhhh a sleep in day. Nice to have those every now and then. We had nothing pressing so we had a leisurely breakfast and then walked to the Poblado Metro Station. Medellin has been very progressive with their Metro, adding an extremely modern train from the south to the […]
[slideshow] Ahhh Medellin, the ‘City of Eternal Spring’, what a lovely city. The majority of people live in apartments or condominiums from the valley right up to the peaks surrounding the city. It is very dramatic and beautiful. The material of choice is brick, so tall red/brown structures are backed […]
