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Eurrail passes arrived in the mail! We’re counting down the weeks at this point.
We did some fine tuning on the itinerary over the weekend. Looked online at our flight reservations and discovered our flght time from Granada to Barcelona had changed. Not a big deal, we’ll just have to get to the […]
When travelling overseas, communication can be a problem. Not a huge problem as many people in Europe do speak English but still, in an emergncy you don’t want something like a language barrier to get in the way of what you need.
If our cab driver, as well as some of the staff in the hospital […]
Travel planning - capturing the moment
Closed Published by Jay Lee May 7th, 2007 on The Bald HereticIn reviewing the pictures from our two previous trips one thing stands out and that’s the fact that there’s simply too few pictures of Cynthia and I together.
Sure, she has her camera and I have my camera so we’ve got some pictures of each other, but the thought of handing hundreds of dollars worth of […]
Travel planning - Barcelona hotel and bonus air fair
Closed Published by Jay Lee May 6th, 2007 on The Bald HereticWe finally found a hotel in Barcelona we like.
The Hotel Pulitzer is a bit pricier than we originally wanted, but it’s well situated in the city center and within spitting distance of the Placa de Catalunya.
The reviews at Trip Advisor give it an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5. It was also […]
For the last two days Cynthia and I have woken up an hour earlier in the morning so we can make overseas calls to Madrid, Seville and Granada to book hotels.
Yesterday we secured our hotel in Seville but there were no vacancies at Los Tilos in Granada. Not totally unexpected as we will be in […]
One of the things I am liking about blogging our upcoming trip is that the posts are being quickly indexed into the main search engines. This is producing an increase in random visits to baldheretic.com from people all over the world searching terms related to travel to Spain. Besides the helpful and much appreciated comments […]