Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Last stop: Estepona, Spain.


After such a whirlwind month of traveling, I planned to spend my last four days at a condo on the south coast of Spain just relaxing before flying home. It was a perfect way to wind down. I walked on the beach every morning before it got too warm, and I ate, drank and slept a lot! I've been home almost a month and I still feel a bit of Europe in me. It's been fun to sort through my photos and continue to savor it.




 ^That's the Rock of Gibraltar in the background to give you an idea of where Estepona is...not far up the coast from Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean side. 


The view from the condo at different times of the day...



We took a very worthwhile little day trip up to the hillside town of Ronda...








Monday, October 19, 2015

Bilbao.

We left Barcelona mid-morning on a Sunday and the goal was to get to Bilbao by 4:00 so we had four hours in the Guggenheim. The museum closes at 8:00 p.m. and they are closed on Mondays, so there was to be no dilly-dallying. We made it! The Frank Gehry designed building was incredible, and the Richard Serra and Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibitions were very, very good. Bilbao itself was a very clean, friendly, beautiful, walkable city...much bigger than I thought it would be.