An easy chair, alone on the beach. A poetic mystery…
Barcelona & Catalunya
The Costa Brava town of l’Estartit is a popular destination for summer beach tourists as well as for snorkelers and scuba divers wanting to take the salty plunge and tour the underwater gardens surrounding the Illes Medes (Medes Islands), a seaside nature preserve…
Another very popular vía ferrata in Catalunya is the one criss-crossing the limestone layers above the town of Centelles, on the C-17 highway from Barcelona to Vic…
The comarca (county) of Baix Empordà, near Gerona, is chock full of quaint, romantic, highly photogenic villages that date back to medieval times…Pals, Palau-Sator, Ullastret, Begur, Peralada, to name just a few.
Peratallada (“carved stone”) is one prime example…
Who knows what’s up and what’s down in this increasingly warm, divided, and authoritarian world in which we live…so why bother leveling the horizon?
I normally am very shy about asking folks for a picture. In this particular case–a couple of days ago–I walked right on by even though I was just dying to photograph this bench scene near where we live. I simply didn’t have the courage to try…
Over the past few weeks, the largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, has been based out of Barcelona, running week-long Mediterranean tours. Later this summer it will depart and move on to service in the Caribbean…
Might there be a way of avoiding the mad and maddening crowds that descend upon this very special energy center each day? Is there a way to sample something of the quiet solitude enjoyed, at least part of the time, by the few monks who live there?
Sometimes you’ve got to just scrunch down there with the dogs to understand their world…
Roses, books, and dragons–oh, my!
What a lovely sorta-holiday…
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