TRAVEL
If you didn’t already know, my wife Madelyn passed away this past September due to complications from surgery to remove a tumor in her brain. My daughter and I decided we didn’t want to spend Christmas home alone on what was my wife’s favorite holiday so I came up with this trip to Spain. Actually, […]
Some of you already know that my wife Madelyn passed away this past September due to complications from surgery to remove a brain tumor. My daughter and I have been dealing with her loss one day at a time, one holiday at a time. We got through Thanksgiving by traveling to NYC to spend it […]
Flamenco performance at Arte y Sabores de Córdoba, located in the heart of the Jewish Quarter in Córdoba Spain. The venue is truly special: within the Arab baths of Santa María dating over one thousand years. The former sauna room of the baths has been carefully restored to hold the flamenco performances. We stumbled upon […]
When in Spain, I’m doing the Flamenco thing. Love the drama, passion and melancholy of it all. Flamenco is an artistic expression fusing song (cante), dance (baile) and musicianship (toque) and has been recognized by UNESCO as an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’. And there are few places in Spain where this artform is better […]
The Spectacular Landscape of Los Barruecos | Extremadura, Spain
575 million years ago was when Spain was born. Well, the land mass that would eventually become Spain was born. Now, I’m not gonna bore you with the evolution of the Precambrian Era but let’s just say that over the past several million years there’s been a lot of molten rock which eventually cooled and […]
The first evidence of humans living in Cáceres is from the Late Paleolithic era, around 25,000 BC(!). Cáceres as a city was founded as Castra Caecilia by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, a general who was Roman consul in 80 BC, and started to gain importance as a strategic city under Roman occupation. Remains found in […]
Last month, I took the family for a vacation in Spain and decided to skip the tourist-laden cities of Madrid, Barcelona and Seville in favor of Extremadura, an autonomous community of southwestern Spain bordering Portugal and comprised of the provinces of Cáceres and Badajoz. The region, which is home to three UNESCO World Heritage sites […]
Last month, I took the family to Spain for a much needed vacation. For our nine-day stay, I wanted to explore different cities so I was thinking a few days in Madrid then off to possibly Barcelona or Seville – maybe Granada? I pored over travel blogs, Tripadvisor, LonelyPlanet, etc, trying to find a location […]
I recently traveled with my daughter to Guatemala to attend the spectacular Festival de Barriletes Gigantes (Giant Kite Festival) which takes place every year on Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in the small Mayan village of Sumpango, about a 30 minute drive north of Antigua. The festival attracts thousands of people from […]
So, my daughter and I took a little “father/daughter” trip to Guatemala (a territory of Central America that once formed the core of the Maya civilization) last month to check out that country’s version of Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). We first visited the historic city of Antigua (photographs HERE) and then […]
