Category: Adventures

• Cancelled Flights and Lost Luggage

  Friday, October 13, 2023, Hotel de la Reconquista, Oviedo, Spain Erik and I have been in Europe for seventeen days.  We’ve covered a lot of ground so far.  Driving through Italy, then into southern France, up to the Pyrenees, and now we are in Northern Spain.  We have logged approximately 1,500 miles in the little…

  Rita Brandin

  October 13, 2023

  Adventures

• Doors, Doors and More Doors

  Tuesday, October 10th, Café Iruna, Pamplona, Spain The doors in Europe have personality. The one above is from Italy. Some doors need a stout coat of paint or shellac, while others are lovingly maintained.  A few of the centuries old doors are covered with graffiti and are suffering abuse.  I’m intrigued by old wooden doors in…

  Rita Brandin

  October 10, 2023

  Adventures

• The Journey Begins – Flashback- October 2022

  Despite months of training back home in Austin, trekking the Camino de Santiago was harder than I expected.  I was always at the back of our group.  On the second day hiking from Roncesvalles, France to Pamplona, Spain, at around mile twelve, I stood at the bottom of a shale hill that looked vertical! I…

  Rita Brandin

  October 8, 2023

  Adventures

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