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    Cats of our travels

    October 11, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Sandra's happy place. Jackpot on day 13. We came through a tiny town Rueiro where it seems someone has set up a bit of a cat sanctuary. Some were too shy for a photo but there were many.

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    Call me Alexandram

    October 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Obtained our Compostela and distance certificates and wandered town. I like my Latin name!

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    Madrid!

    October 13, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Mary and I boarded a train to Madrid this morning. Mary has been here many times before - it being one of her favorite cities but this is my first time. It is a beautiful city! The beautiful buildings are everywhere. We stopped at a nice cocktail bar for a Spanish gin before continuing our travels through the public gardens in which families and friends were gathering for Friday evening visits. Then we found a long pedestrian street with many outdoor restaurants. We had a wonderful salad and some paella. Finally in an alley, on our return walk to our hotel we spied an amazing six story mural.Read more

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    Toledo

    October 15, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    We walked to the Madrid train station (see the lovely boulevard in Madrid) this morning and traveled to Toledo - a 35 minute trip. Toledo has a cool train station albeit small.

    Toledo is a medieval walled city and originally the capital of Spain - named a unesco world heritage site in the 80s - with Arab, Jewish and Christian monuments. It also has a massive military history museum.

    Home to manchego cheese production there's even a tiny museum sharing it's history and production process.

    For lunch we had what is called a manchego sheet (with a sheet of manchego melted and hardened hung on clothes pins and served with guacamole) and pork cheeka with a manchego sauce.

    We visited the cathedral and the ancient synagogue as well.

    On the way out of town we spotted a cool monument to the people who worked to keep citizens safe during covid.

    Oh and Mom, they have an entire store devoted to Lladros.    Read more

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    Madrid day 3

    October 16, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Madrid continues to impress. Beautiful buildings and gardens, gin clubs and restaurants galore. Today we had lunch in a great place that I would describe as granville island on steroids, shopped (Mary bought a pair of shoes, fancy trainers), saw an impressive 12 foot sculpture (part of a city program to show the art of locals for up to a year), visited the national library (Mary's happy place), had dinner with a former NDI colleague I've not seen since 2002 and visited a gin club where we tried a new to us spanish gin.Read more

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    Madrid day 4

    October 17, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Started our day with a guided tour of the Prado museum. Wonderful guide who showed us all the most important pieces and described the history, significance and symbolism. After the tour she took us to a famous and very old (opened in 1827) vermouth and tapas bar. We were treated to a glass of Casa Alberto vermouth - to open up the palette - after which our guide took us to Botin restaurant (founded in 1725), famous for its roast suckling pig. We were served that and a cheese cake with a custard type centre. So good. We left our amazing guide Rosita after the meal.

    Mary and I walked to the Presidential Palace but did not go in as the ticket line was super long. We did however get a good photo looking down over the city and watched an accordion player for a bit. My favorites were his variations of Imagine and Time to Say Goodbye.

    Tonight we walked to a gin club - La Pasa Gin Bar - near our hotel. Such a lovely young man who owns the place. He talked us through many of his Spanish gins. We had to try a couple each 😏 particularly liked the writing on my gin glass - I'm not old, I am vintage.    Read more

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    Last day in Madrid

    October 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

    We spent the first half of the day at the Thyssen Bernemisza museum first started as a private collection by Baron Heinrich Thyssen in 1905. There are 775 works that span the 13th to 20th century. There was also a small temporary Picasso exhibit. The collection was turned over to the Spanish government in 1993. https://www.museothyssen.org/ while at the museum it was very exciting to discover three John Singer Sargeant paintings - an artist of whom we have several prints in our home in Edmonton.

    Upon leaving we found the streets teeming with unusually hard rain but we braved it nonetheless to visit the famous Churria San Gines, founded in 1894 https://chocolateriasangines.com/ for chocolate and Churros - a must do in Madrid. To accompany the Churros (fried dough) you are served chocolate. It is meant to be consumed like hot chocolate but it is the darkest, richest almost pudding like drink. The intention is that you dip the Churros in the chocolate.

    In the evening we returned to our favorite bar - Harvey's cocktail bar for amazing cocktails and croquette snacks. Next off to Dublin!    Read more

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    Dublin

    October 20, 2023 in Ireland ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    Arrived in Dublin for the last part of our trip. Cold and rainy afternoon with flooding in some parts of the city. We wandered a bit and then retired to the bar on our lovely hotel - The Marlin. Started Saturday with another big wander with stops at some jewelry stores, a cross over the ha'penny bridge, a cheesemongery (had to taste several - amazing. We were highly entertained by the young fellow who served us. When he asked about our trip and Mary told him we had walked the Camino his response was "fair play to you". Apparently that is Irish for wow, good for you.) and a visit to the Celtic whiskey shop that Rachel O'Reilly said we had to visit. You were right Rachel! Next on to the Temple Bar area where we walked by several pubs with live fiddle music and singing. We settled on Quay's upstairs where we were able to get a table and have a great fish and chips lunch. After more wandering we visited The Gin Palace. In the evening we saw a play at the historic Gaiety Theatre, founded in 1871.Read more

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    Last day in Ireland

    October 22, 2023 in Ireland ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

    Mary and I started our last day in Ireland with a visit to the National Gallery. Next we walked through St Stephen's Green - a beautiful park in the middle of Dublin. There we saw a monument remembering the famine, and the summer house where women and men slept and ate during the Easter uprising. Next we moved on to the train station and hopped on the first train leaving for somewhere on the coast. We took some photos from the train (yes Elizabeth, sun and blue skies again in Ireland 😉). We disembarked an hour outside Dublin at Greystones, a lovely little coastal town. After lunch at the Burnaby House Pub we wandered along the beach road and watched some very hearty souls swimming (it was only about 10 degrees) and listened to a piper.Read more

    Trip end
    October 24, 2023
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