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Granada, Spain
Granada—It is a city that has inspired songs, poems, dances, theatre, food, and art. It is home to the Alhambra, a copper-colored fortress rising against the backdrop of the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains, and the subject of its own blog post. It is the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited. From afar, I grow fonder of it by the hour.
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No8Do, Sevilla
I fully recommend taking the train from Madrid to Sevilla. Super fast, free Wifi, a café full of snacks and treats, and time to sit back and relax as olive groves and sunflower fields zoom by. If you’ve been following my blog posts about Spain, however, you’ll be familiar with the fact that nothing on our trip went according to plan: missed flights, lost luggage, cancelled hotels—and that’s the short of how Matt and I ended up at the Madrid train station (with two cancelled train tickets to Sevilla in hand) trying to rent a car to Sevilla. By God’s miracle alone did we find the very last automatic car available for…
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Madrid, Spain
What are the best things to see when you only have half a day in Madrid? This was the question I posed to Google countless times before our trip, knowing that we would only have an evening and a morning to explore the capital city of Spain. Not enough time, I know! We would have planned for more time in this outstanding city, but in the words of my 3rd grade teacher, there were “things to do, people to see, places to go, fish to fry!” (She also used to say “cats to skin,” but as a cat-lover, that phrase never became part of my vocabulary). Madrid is everything I could ever…
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Segovia, Spain
Segovia lies just north of Spain’s capital city Madrid, a short thirty-minute train ride into the Spanish countryside. Tourists (like us) regularly select Segovia as a day-trip from Madrid not only due to its convenience, but also because it boasts three particularly spectacular sights: the Alcazar of Segovia, the Catedral of Segovia, and the Roman Aqueduct.
