One of the main reasons I wanted to come to the north of Spain was to go to Guernica. Guernica is a relatively small town, just east of Bilbao in Basque Country. During the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1939, which put Franco in power, the Basque people fought against Franco. Franco was determined to unify… Read More Guernica

THERE IS LOX ON THE BREAKFAST BUFFET. Our first activity was a panoramic bus tour of Bilbao. Bilbao was a heavily industrial town until the middle to late 20th century when industry dried up. The town then made a conscientious decision to hire some really good architects to build up the town in order to… Read More First Full Day in Bilbao with Tour Group

Today we sadly left Gijon, but are looking forward to joining our tour group in Bilbao. Here is the last look at our Airbnb and attempt to show you the craziness of the parking structure in which we had to park our car. On the way, we made a stop at the Capricho de Gaudi… Read More Back to Bilbao

On this day, we decided to spend the morning relaxing and not go anywhere until after lunch. Also, lunch was leftover paella. Since we have been here, we have gotten into the habit after breakfast of going across the street and having café con leche. It’s an outside café and we get a beautiful view… Read More Fourth and Last Day in Gijon

This morning, I got the idea of trying to locate a body shop and seeing what it would take to fix the car. We got an early start out of the house and went to a body shop that was within about a kilometer. The guys there were really nice and immediately fixed the car.… Read More Our third day in Gijon

I can’t begin to express how much I love Gijon. After yesterday‘s spectacular day, we took another ride up into the mountains to a town called Viegas. We drove through mountain hamlets of Parque Natural de Somiedo stopping for numerous Polaroid moments. Here are the pictures that we took on the ride up to Viegas.… Read More Estoy Enamorada de Gijon

On Monday, I left Franklin and flew to Bilbao Spain, where I met up with my friend Reggie. From there, we rented a car and drove three hours to Gijon which is a delightful city on the north coast of Spain. When we got here, we had an interesting adventure. It took over an hour… Read More Gijon, Spain

My host, Rafi, volunteers for the Jewish Museum and is a tour guide to the old Jewish cemetery located on Rat-Beil-Strase. Rafi and Tamar treated me to an exclusive tour of the cemetery. This site was used from 1828 to 1928. It is a 74,000 m² site and contains approximately 30,000 graves. In the early… Read More Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt

I am in Frankfurt for the week to visit my friend Tamar and her partner Rafi. They live in the village of Bergen, which is in the northeast area of Frankfurt. One day, Tamar and I drove to the town of Bad Vilbel. Bad in German means mineral spring. We walked through the park by… Read More Frankfurt, Germany