We arrived home last night from 15 days in Spain and Portugal. We've managed to pick up the cat from the kennel and go grocery shopping and the laundry is started. I haven't downloaded the pictures yet. I have several hundered to go through, so please be patient.
The trip was fabulous. It was warm and sunny almost all the time. Now that we're home, it's definitely feeling like fall. The air is crisp and cool! Spain and Portugal look a lot like the southwest US. Along the coast, it's more humid than I expected, but the land was pretty dry. The food varied from really good to pretty bad depending on what city we were in and what we ordered.
Since we visited so many cities, I think I'll describe them one at a time in the posts. That will give me time to go through the pictures, too! But to give you a bit of background, we took an organized tour through Rick Steves - you know, the guy who does the travel programs on public TV? Anyway, there were 24 people on the tour. We mostly traveled by bus which enabled us to see some of the small towns and the countryside. The tour leader was really good about explaining the food and culture at each stop. We usually had about 1/2 the day to tour as a group and then we had the other 1/2 day to go off on our own. It was nice to have the free time to see what we wanted at our own pace, or just to get some extra rest. Afterall, it is a vacation!
But after 15 days of cities and cathrdrals and palaces, I'm glad to be home. After a while they start to all look alike! And I'm a bit tired of all the city noises, too. It's nice to be back home where it's quiet and everything is green!
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