My Barcelona Top 5 7 Barcelona is one of my favorite European cities, second only to Lisbon which tops my list. It is vibrant and pulsates with life. Walking around its streets and narrow alleyways, it’s easy to understand why travellers fall in love with it so quickly and so passionately. Here is my list…
Category: Europe
A Step Closer to the Camino de Santiago
Last August, I wrote about how I missed a talk by Australian professor and Camino guide Marc Grossman, lamenting how frustrated I was that I missed it and how going to this pilgrimage is really a lifelong dream of mine. So imagine my delight when four months later, on Christmas Eve last…
Top Budget Travel Destinations for 2011 via Budget Travel
Here’s Budget Travel Magazine’s Top Budget Destinations for 2011. Manila didn’t make it to the list but my favorite city, Lisbon, did. Here’s an excerpt. We analyzed a year’s worth of news, trends, and statistics to identify the world’s best value destinations for 2011. From China to our own backyard, here are ten places that…
Delectable Tapas, Scary Mimes, Biting Cold and Borrowed Boots
The Boots “Oh no, you’re not!” Left Foot screams as I look at the pair of boots with disdain apprehension. “You are definitely not going to wear that,” agrees Right Foot. But what can I do? I arrived in Barcelona totally unprepared for the cold. The weather guides all over cyberspace agreed that it wasn’t…
