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A Year of Living Awesomely
  • Lynne Schroeder
  • Richard Schroeder
  • Lynne Schroeder
  • Richard Schroeder

A Year of Living Awesomely

In which we take our last big trip. SE Asia and Europe Leggi altro
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    Road trip

    22 settembre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Today we went on a road trip to St Nicolas Del Peurto. Nice river running through and a waterfall a couple of kilometres downstream from the town. A coffee at the local bar and back home. Most of the countryside is olive and cork tree plantations. The cork tree trunks are stripped of their bark and yet this does not kill them!Leggi altro

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    Tapas

    23 settembre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    We’re making sure we visit every cafe/bar in Constantina. 🙂. Coffee (with churros) during the day and beers/wine in the evenings. The coffees are good and strong, and cost about half compared to Australia. For drinks, no hard and fast rule in Andalusia , but it is customary that the bar offers a plate of Tapas as a welcome and an incentive to stay a while. The best one so far offered had cheese and crackers, salami and sliced ham. 😁. You can then order, if you wish, other Tapas plates for around 3 euro each.Leggi altro

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    Cerro del Hiero

    24 settembre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    A short drive away is Cerro del Hiero, an old iron ore mining site amongst interesting rock formations, overlooking the Sierra Norte. A UNESCO rated geological site. Mornings are getting colder now, but leaves are not turning colour as yet.PS. Interesting to see grand old gum trees throughout this region. Don’t know how they got here, but a nice reminder of home.Leggi altro

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    El Pedroso

    25 settembre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    A nice drive today to El Pedroso. A sleepy little hill town amongst the olive plantations. Wandered through the lanes to the church, which in its past, was damaged by an earthquake. PS. We looked up the translation of what El Pedroso means. It means “The Stoner”. 😬Leggi altro

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    Train to Toledo

    1 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Today we leave Constantina with fond memories. We drop the car back in Seville, then stroll over to Seville’s main train station. The fast train to Madrid and takes about 3 hours. Short wait and another fast train for the 30 min trip to Toledo. NB. Madrid station is huge. Very much like an airport. Toledo station is not what we expected. Simply a beautiful building. Taxi up to the old town and settle in for the evening.Leggi altro

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    El Greco Museum

    4 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    El Greco, one of the masters, lived for some time in Toledo. The El Greco museum pays homage to him and his contemporaries including Tristan. Overall, the museum buildings and gardens are quite amazing and peaceful. It was believed that El Greco had lived in this restored residence, but it turned out he hadn’t. As a painter I found his paintings quite dark, with the subjects primarily being religious, and having a slightly “out of focus” feel. As entry was free for over 65’s one cannot be overly critical. 🧐Leggi altro

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    In and around the Old Town

    6 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Strangely enough Sundays here are when most of the grocery shops, cafes and bars are shut during the day. Maybe not strangely, for it’s the sabbath. Even though the tourist buses keep coming they’re closed. They may open after 7pm, (and Tapas available after 8pm) but by then we are well and truly too tired and lazy to go out to find out). 🙄. PS. Maccas and the Sword shops are open. 😬Leggi altro

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    East side of Toledo

    10 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Continued our walk along the river which surrounds Toledo on three sides. Then back up the hill and explored the eastern side of town. At our coffee stop we saw an amazing site. At first we thought it was a hummingbird, due to the speed of the wings and thin beak. It wasn’t. There are no hummingbirds in Europe. It was Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Truly beautiful.Leggi altro

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    Museum of the Visigoths

    11 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Interesting museum chronicling the history of the Visigoths. The ones who sacked Rome and ended the Roman empire. They were living as allies within the Roman Empire, however, they attacked Rome in 408 AD after the Western Roman Emperor murdered the Germanic general named Stilicho, along with his family and the families of many other Germanic people in the empire. Why? Perhaps they were becoming too powerful and ambitious. 🤔Leggi altro

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    Our Taberna

    12 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We say goodbye to Toledo tomorrow. To mark our stay here we have a few drinks at our local pub. Right next door to our apartment. 🙂. Beers and wine are 3€, so not too pricey, and the place has a nice ambiance.A small place serving all manner of drinks and simple, delicious home made meals.Leggi altro

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    Madrid

    13 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    A short trip from Toledo. Arrived at our quirky hotel via the Metro. A great system. You are only waiting max. 10min for any train. Walked up the road for some beers and Tapas. Also went into town to Sol plaza. Top end shops and hotels. And the Jamon Museum!Leggi altro

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    Perlora

    14 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We leave Madrid at 4.30pm for Perlora by train. A 3 hour trip in deepening gloom past small towns and pastures 🤔. Arrived at our hotel at 10pm and that was it. Perlora is a quiet little village on the north coast of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. Beautiful coastline with views to Candas, the nearest town. We liked the look of the “plate of the day” lunch at a nearby cafe. 12 € seemed reasonable. And what a meal! Huge bowl of stew with white beans, bacon, sausage and black pudding. Then fish and chips, then baked apple for dessert. 🍮Leggi altro

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    Gijón

    18 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    A short train ride takes us to Gijón, the largest town in Asturias. Known primarily for its maritime heritage, its beaches are what people come here for. Architecturally, it’s quite modern with few Roman sites, due to a fires that razed the town over several hundred years.Leggi altro

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    Perlora to León

    21 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Our journey today is from the quaint hills and seaside village of Perlora, to the bustling city of León. (Lion). We have taken the slower but cheaper Regional train through the Cantabrian Mountains. A rugged mountain range that runs through to the Pyrenees. Here the Cantabrian Brown Bear has now been protected, and the population now stands at about 400. (From 60). PS. If you kill one the fine is €300k.Leggi altro

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    León

    22 ottobre 2024, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Our first walk through this city. And it’s a charming city situated on the Bernesga River. Over the San Marco bridge to an amazing building that was originally a convent, and later a prison during the Franco era, where prisoners were tortured and executed. Now a 5 star hotel and museum.Leggi altro

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