Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 1

So another year has passed and we find ourselves again sitting at the airport boarding gate waiting for our flight to start our trip to Spain. I find that this is really the best part of the trip when all of the work of planning and researching the trip is over and the excitement of just getting there is all we’re thinking about. We’ve only just arrived at the airport and the bags have been checked and we now just have to wait for the boarding call. Only after this first stage, the familiar weariness of travel will begin to take over as we make our way to Toronto, then Madrid, then Barcelona arriving some time tomorrow morning. Our planning for this trip began a mere six weeks ago due mostly to the fact of us moving into our new place and finishing our renovation consumed most of our time which we would normally be using to plan the details. I say we in the generic sense because truth be known, Barb does about 95% of the planning on all of our trips. It’s not that I don’t like to do any of this kind of stuff but we’re talking about easily over 100 hours of time that Barb spends planning each trip. I usually just ask her to do a presentation on the short list of choices of where we will be staying so I can add my two cents before we book anything. You’ll just have to take my word that this system works quite well.

When we were considering where we might travel to this year and decided on Spain, one can’t help but start thinking of the great names of history that one associates with Spain. Names like Christopher Columbus, Don Juan and Manuel, the waiter from Faulty Towers. Spain seems to have a varied blend of culture and rich history that in many ways is unique among other European countries.

This trip will be interesting in the fact that we are the *least* prepared of any of our trips to speak the native language. Armed only with a few translation books, we’re hoping that we won’t run into too many problems in this area.

The first destination on our Spanish adventure will be Barcelona, then onto Madrid, followed by a week in the southern area of Andalusia where we have rented a villa. We’ll finish our trip in Sevilla (Seville) for a few days before making our way back home.

I’ll check in again in a few days after we have settled in on our discovery of Barcelona.

Take care,

Barb and Baden

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