The idea of organizing our recent trip was thanks to the cancellation of another. Some time ago, our close friends began organizing a group trip to the western Mediterranean of Europe, concentrating their efforts in eastern Spain, specifically in Barcelona and Italy. Being a group, such planning should include hiring transport services and an experienced tour guide. However, the trip was canceled because it did not reach an acceptable number of people to complete the group of 20.
The issue of mobility when planning a trip, is always of great concern. Many factors influence selecting the best method of transportation or the one that best suits us. Since costs, distances, comfort and even the time available or scheduled to visit a city, everything counts. Sometimes depending on the chosen means of transportation, it can determine the amount of time will stay visiting a city. Continue reading “Auto, Bus, Train or Plane?”
Have you ever found yourself saying this when arriving at a place you wanted to visit or see? It’s perhaps the worst feeling to have and maybe very frustrating and disappointing. We plan a trip with the expectation of visiting certain places and monuments and it is unfortunate when we finally get there and find a sign indicating it is closed due to maintenance or conservation and restoration works. Continue reading “Oh No! It’s Closed!”
Just as an athlete prepares and trains for a competition, likewise we prepared for our trip Spain 2017. Through the organization Puerto Rico Historic Building Drawings Society (PRHBDS) and unknowingly, their walking tours prepared us when the time came to cross the sea to the Old World. Continue reading “Our training began at home, Puerto Rico”
… phrase made popular during the sixties thanks to the Broadway play “Cabaret”. The same affirms that we are mainly dependent on money in order to make things happen. Traveling is not an exception. Continue reading “Money makes the world go round …”
How does one get started in order to capture that memorable image? Identify that element that stands out in a scene, that’s how we begin take pictures during our travels. It may be a fountain in a park, a rose at the foot of a statue or the earthenware flooring seen through the bars of a gateway. Continue reading “Getting the most out of your cell phone camera”
Taking pictures can be easy. But to take great pictures you have to be willing to move that body, scale walls, climb towers and observe everything around you, top to bottom. Continue reading “The things your body must do!”
As soon as we decided that our trip “Spain 2017” would be a reality, two things popped into our minds, where will we go and with what camera will we take pictures. We don’t have any of those professional cameras. No Canon, Nikon, Sony or Fuji Film. Continue reading “Put the blame on the Cell Phone”
Resources such as “Google Maps” and official tourism maps (see notes below) allowed us to organize and program the activities and touring we would undertake daily during our stay in Spain. It also helped in determining how much we would need for each city and identify where to locate a command center to serve as home base for all our touring. Continue reading “If Columbus could do it, so can we”
Every town, city, region and country has their own particular charm, feature and places of interest. These inspire and motivates their selection as a destination to be visited and discovered. As the saying goes; “different strokes for different folks.” That is what greatly influences the decision to visit a specific place. Continue reading “View and / or Visit”