In brief: The remote pair of monasteries at the World Heritage sites of Suso and Yuso draw pilgrims en route to Santiago and Spaniards honoring their language's roots. Amid all the religious sites – and…
In brief: Neither Compostela pilgrims nor tourists would want to miss this World Heritage monument, still soaring in detail yet artfully enhanced since the 13th century. In 1221, pilgrims journeyed through Burgos in northwestern Spain,…
In brief: The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post wanders along the secular side (university, courtly, and commercial life). Our other post about this delightful city honored…
In brief: The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post honors the first, the grand churches and monastic centers. Our other post wanders along the secular side (university,…
In brief: As a fine exhibit here showed, Banksy keeps meeting walls he likes, on which he likes to critique what he doesn’t like about our world. Self-portrait, Banksy He kept meeting walls he liked.…
In brief: Not everyone “gets” the abstract art Kandinsky pioneered. Yet attention to the span of his paintings proved engaging, especially while circling Wright's solid spiral. We took time out from family get-togethers in NYC…
In brief: We found lots of local charm in May, inside a spectacular venue and outside at our favorite park. Outside at Monsanto A warm morning, a brilliant sky, and abundant wildflowers kissed by bees…
In brief: A local pro tennis tournament proved especially fun as an antidote to all the covid limitations. We returned to Lisbon just in time to attend eight hours of a professional tennis tournament on…
In brief: In the midst of salt flats and arid desert, palmy oases around Tozeur have long sustained intriguing towns. You travel for hours through Saharan desert or drive very straight along an endless causeway…
In brief: A millennium ago, Berbers built storage bins for grain or added protected caverns to mountain tops, spaces that villagers have used for homes ever since. We were not surprised to discover that the…