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.
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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