2018 was another year rich with travel adventures… January was about … Feb was about … March was about … April was about … ……enjoying springtime in Paris, France May was about … June was about … July was about…
Gems from Spain’s Costa Brava ~ Llanca, Besalu and Cadaques
From Tarragona, Spain we take a high speed train heading towards the North Eastern region of Spain, just below the border with France. A home exchange request had come our way, a few months earlier, from a family with an apartment in…
Under the shadow of a mountain ~ Nomads in Tarragona, Spain
The topic has often come up in the past about the implication of living a nomadic life, when it comes to friends. Default thinking is of friends being geographically close. And yet, we often point out, this does not have…
Lost and found ~ travel sketches
One of the downsides (and blessings) of a nomadic life, is that one cannot hoard stuff. Detaching from material possessions is a prerequisite for a successful nomadic life. Even though we have several times dramatically thinned out our earthly…
International Yoga Day 2016 ~ Green Global Trek retrospective
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India asked world leaders to adopt an International Yoga Day. Addressing the 193 member UN General Assembly, Modi said “Yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition; it is not about exercise, but to…
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…