After 6 years of living in Nicaragua and 20 months as global nomads (in Asia and Europe), we are about to kick off yet another phase in our Green Global Trek: We return to Chicago for a while (6 months?…
A weekend fling in Amsterdam
Lunch in Lisbon, dinner in Amsterdam ~ such are the charms of living in Europe! We arrive in Amsterdam, in our new home exchange, just in time to catch a herring before the stall closes. Whew! We must start Amsterdam…
We’re back ~ beach hopping in Portugal’s romantic Algarve region.
When you live nomadically, there are sometimes cross roads where the question of “Should I stay, or should I go?” yields muddled answers. And so it was for us with Portugal. We bounced back and forth between Portugal and Spain…
Lisbon ~ Hommage to the Azulejo ceramic tile culture
Seduced as we were during our first visit, by Lisbon’s urban kaleidoscope of ceramic tiled buildings, we want more! A return visit to Lisbon a month or so later, allows us to delve deeper into Portugal’s Azulejo (ceramic tile) culture……
Green Global Trek “Top 5” for Granada, Spain
Our stay in Granada is an opportunity to wink at our personal history. We were here, years ago, when early-on in our relationship, we seized every opportunity to travel together. We return to Granada thus with somewhat faded, but warm…
Discovering Cabo de Gata ~ Andalucia’s largest coastal protected natural reserve in Southern Spain
Spain has been experiencing a major financial crisis, ever since 2009. A boom in construction, that has now gone bust, was fueled by an expectation of continued investment by Northern Europeans ~ Germans and Brits primarily, who flock annually to…
Boutique hotel in the historic center of Sevilla, Spain.
We frequently get asked to give specific recommendations about small and unique boutique hotels along our travels. While we mostly orchestrate our travels around home exchange (with our house in Granada, Nicaragua), we succumb to occasional infusions of boutique hotel…
Cuba ~ a treasure trove of travel.
Arguably the most memorable single item of “progress” made by the Obama Administration in the realm of foreign policy will be the radical shift, much belated as it is, away from an absurd decades old embargo on Cuba. . A…