Author Archives: boogkb

Tues 3 November cooler Cadiz side trip. 1 hour 40 minute local train ride to the beautiful seaside spit of land, the port that replaced Seville when it's port sort over. Rich in earlier times from the trading monopoly for … Continue reading →

Monday 3 November Hotel breakfast and then Atoche train to Seville. Excellent high speed train to Seville. Clean, fast, nice meal served, comfortable seats. Zipped along at 250km/hr. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Cathedral The cathedral was closed when we got there. The write up … Continue reading →

Sunday 2 November same nice, bit warmer weather. Then very heavy rain after dinner. First stop after a rather large buffet breakfast at the hotel: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyssen-Bornemisza_Museum Did not enter as an exhibit we wanted to see does not start until … Continue reading →

Saturday 1 November another perfect day Flight to Madrid to meet up with Michelle and George. Cab driver tried hard to cheat us. Ran a meter on a fixed fare ride. When I just gave him the fixed rate he … Continue reading →

Friday 31 October warm Last full day in Rome. Vatican city day with evening visit to the museum. That and some strolling in the shopping areas. A visit to gelarmony, another highly recommended place. Visited it in Vancouver where it … Continue reading →

I was here: Sistine Chapelhttp://fieldtripper.com/c/4kiQ0IfIeXQ/sistine-chapel I thought you might find this interesting, too. It's your world, explore it.: http://fieldtripper.com Shared from Google Keep Field Trip – Sistine Chapel Thanks to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), the Sistine Chapel … Continue reading →

http://fieldtripper.com/c/WzmtmfvcHuI/vatican-museums I thought you might find this interesting, too. It's your world, explore it.: http://fieldtripper.com Shared from Google Keep Field Trip – Vatican Museums The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani), in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are … Continue reading →

Thursday 30 October. Same weather except brutal hot sun. Breakfast entertainment continues with the highly engineered coffee machine. Beautiful, many alternatives, but barely functional. Milk spews, other items drip…. Two morning custards. One a flan the other was described to … Continue reading →

Wednesday same weather. First to the market at campo di Fiori. An interesting short history of Roman Jews. Did not know they are a separate group. https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/romes-jewish-legacy No entrance without a guide and no photos. Church of Jesus. Ornate to … Continue reading →

Tuesday 28 October. Same weather. Turned out to be mostly a rest day. Shorter touring by qb and some hours resting for kb, back spasm. Qb brought breakfast to the room to save me the hike before the spasm relented. … Continue reading →