It’s comparatively unknown outside of Spain, but the wine region of Priorat is among Spain’s oldest producers. Over the past fifteen years, since Priorat was designated a denomination of quality … Read more
The Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur (the Holy Savior) in Aix is interesting because of all the styles that went into it over the centuries. Originally built in the 5th Century on … Read more
Late in his life in Aix en Provence, the painter Paul Cézanne painted Mount Sainte Victoire dozens of times. It was just up the hill from his studio, and he … Read more
The church at the Cluny Abbey in France was once the largest Christian church in the world. It’s now in ruins.
My favorite museum in Barcelona is the Museum of Catalan Art. It’s not full of the Catalan Art that most think of, such as that of Miró or Tapies. Instead … Read more
The really cool thing about attending a travel bloggers conference–I cannot tell a lie–is the chance to be shown around the area by the local tourism boards. For free. We’ve … Read more
There was a time when the popes did not live in Rome, but instead at Avignon, in Southern France.
More than 35 years after our first visit, we returned to Sligo, the town and the county of Ireland made famous by the poetry of W.B. Yeats. We wanted to … Read more
As part of the travel blogging convention we recently attended in Lloret de Mar in the Costa Brava region of Spain, bloggers were treated to their choice of day trips … Read more
The Sagrada Familia, the fantastic basilica of Antoní Gaudí, it the one can’t miss attraction of Barcelona.
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