View over Bilbao
Up, down, and along Bilbao
In brief: Perhaps Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum pushed Bilbao into a new era, but our visit showed a city with so many old and new attractions. Bilbao was not the city we expected. We thought we…
Standing and lying bison, Altamira
Altamira’s Sistine Chapel of Cave Art
In brief: Was it worth a long trip to see just a copy of famous paintings from tens of thousands of years ago? The experience, we found, proved well worth it. No one believed him.…
The codex annotated in Spanish. San Millan
San Millan’s Notes Heard ‘Round the World
In brief: The remote pair of monasteries at the World Heritage sites of Suso and Yuso draw pilgrims en route to Santiago and Spaniards honoring their language's roots. Amid all the religious sites – and…
Cloister aisle
Burgos Cathedral: The Royal Treatment
In brief: Neither Compostela pilgrims nor tourists would want to miss this World Heritage monument, still soaring in detail yet artfully enhanced since the 13th century. In 1221, pilgrims journeyed through Burgos in northwestern Spain,…
Plaza Mayor, Salamanca
Secular Salamanca
In brief: The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post wanders along the secular side (university, courtly, and commercial life). Our other post about this delightful city honored…
Overhead at the New Cathedral, Salamanca
Sacred Salamanca
In brief: The sacred and the secular have always lived side by side in Salamanca. This post honors the first, the grand churches and monastic centers. Our other post wanders along the secular side (university,…
Girl with balloon, Banksy
A Wall of his Own: Banksy
In brief: As a fine exhibit here showed, Banksy keeps meeting walls he likes, on which he likes to critique what he doesn’t like about our world. Self-portrait, Banksy He kept meeting walls he liked.…
Circles on Black, Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky: Spiraling through the work
In brief: Not everyone “gets” the abstract art Kandinsky pioneered. Yet attention to the span of his paintings proved engaging, especially while circling Wright's solid spiral. We took time out from family get-togethers in NYC…
Academia das ciencias hall
Merry Month of May – Inside and Out
In brief: We found lots of local charm in May, inside a spectacular venue and outside at our favorite park. Outside at Monsanto A warm morning, a brilliant sky, and abundant wildflowers kissed by bees…
Enjoying the outing
In the Tennis Groove at Estoril
In brief: A local pro tennis tournament proved especially fun as an antidote to all the covid limitations. We returned to Lisbon just in time to attend eight hours of a professional tennis tournament on…
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