by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 19, 2024 | Travel
We bid despedida, or farewell, to Granada and boarded the bus for a 110-mile drive to Ronda in the Sierra de las Nieves National Park. The city of 35,000 is split on one corner by a spectacular gorge separating the old-town quarter from modernization. Near Antequera...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 16, 2024 | Travel
Granada’s 235,000 residents live in tightly packed houses strewn across the Alhambra, Albayzín, and Sacromonte hillsides. The Darro, Genil, Monachil, and Beiro Rivers converge in these foothills at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, explaining why this...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 13, 2024 | Travel
Our Rick Steve’s group travels by bus from Toledo across Spain’s largest plain. La Mancha is Arabic for “land without water.” This vast dry farming region produces cereal crops, sheep, goats, and saffron. European bus drivers are supposed to...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 9, 2024 | Travel
Starting in 542, Toledo was the Capital of the Visigoth Kingdom, then Spain, until Philip II moved Spain’s capital to Madrid in 1560. Toledo is known as the “City of Three Cultures” because Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived there in harmony. The...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Oct 28, 2024 | Travel, Uncategorized
After a fifty-mile day trip by bus from our current home base in Madrid, Segovia greets us with its 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct. Vehicle traffic was allowed to pass through the 100-foot high arches until it was discovered that the rumble was disturbing its 24,000...
