Seville

Spain is a fairly big country, particularly by European standards, and when we finally were fortunate enough to score reservations to Sevilla, it was a long train ride. We arrived after dark and walked a few blocks to our hotel in the old town. It was a tiny pensione...

Barcelona Landmarks

One more Barcelona landmark, the Terre Agbar. It’s the third tallest structure in the city, and it’s covered with LED lights in red and green and purple. It’s very cool. The architect says he was inspired by a fountain, but as you might imagine, citizens of the city...

Exploring Barcelona

I’m not sure why I didn’t know what an incredibly beautiful city Barcelona is. I knew about the architecture, of course, and the Catalan influence, but getting out into the city (and for us, that often begins with a tour bus overview), I was stunned by the beauty of...

Lyon to Barcelona

From Geneva we continued on to Lyon, France, where we had half an hour to catch our connecting train to Spain. At the Lyon station we rushed to find the track for our next train, which took longer than we had hoped. Then, as we were headed down the hall to the...

The Bernina Express

At Torino, we walked out of the Italian train station across a square to the Swiss railway. There we boarded the Bernina Express, described as the most spectacular way to cross the Alps. The panoramic cars travel slowly on an electric, rather than a rack railway. From...