Just another Bike Ride

I left Australia with the objective of walking a Camino, and another objective of seeing more of Spain, namely Andalusia and regions north. ...

My first selfie. It appears everyone takes these, except all my friends. But I was in good company - Mr Daimler and Mr Benz in the auto mus...

They had been waiting for me. Just as I entered the central plaza of Avila, after my bus ride from Salamanca, the band struck up, and the pr...

Salamanca is halfway from Seville to Santiago. More than that, it had special church status in relation to Santiago.

For the last few days I have looked for an open cafe around 9 - only a few are open. Today, soon the crowds start walking past. The young wo...

This is said to one of the best Plazas in the world. I did not see it at its best. It was very loud, but she danced anyway. And there was ...

I came across a car museum, and even though this is from the USA it has an air of elegance and function. A smaller engine would improve it. ...

It did something for your abdominal muscles. Especially when you were wearing a weight jacket for added stability - imagine a vest laden wit...

Back a bit I visited Caceres - it was good. The travel guides said Plasencia was also a good walled city. But that was Marketing and its pur...

In my younger years I sailed Ok Dinghies. Some of my friends went to Sweden for International OK races, although I didn't, so I didn...

This place had been classy, it still was. Fortunately not so crowded at the moment.

The other day, his master nearby, a coffee perhaps. Previously horses were part of life here.

The median strip is lush, cool in the midday heat, and there was a row of many stalls selling jamon and cheese.

Way too much has been written about this for a thousand years or so. Anyway I will add my bit so it too can get lost in the annals of histor...

On Being, probably way too difficult to write about even for "him". So something tractable, "On Time in Spain". A few p...

It is somewhat well known that perfect symmetry is not quite right, it jars, puts the mind somehow into a state of disequilibrium, and is th...

They had all gone, it was a little cooler and much quieter. A group of musicians transformed the plaza near the church, they were good, or ...