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I’ve hiked all over the world. And, by far, the trail that always puts a smile on my face when I think back to my journey is the Camino dos ...

These are some of my watercolors from my many travels in Spain. While Ronda, one of Spain’s Pueblos Blancos (White Villages) has always b...

As we continue to self-isolate, many of us crave connections with others more than ever, to recapture some of the intimacies we had in ...

Each hiking trail has a personality. Some are majestic, taking trekkers to high altitude where the summits seem to touch the clouds. Other...

This dramatically-crafted, granite monolith in the coastal town of Muxia honors the Galician volunteers that mobilized in 2002 to clean up...

I recently signed up for a self-guided hike along the Camino dos Faros -- the Lighthouse Way in Galicia, Spain -- with On Foot Holidays . ...

With summer vacations on the horizon, how do you choose an adventure-based trip? After all, you don't want to end up on a hiking trek t...

Ever wonder why I rarely if ever carry a purse? What made me fall in love with Spain, Portugal and Israel? What makes Washington state's...

What could I possibly be doing in a stone-made hamlet in Spain where there's no shopping, no cars, no air conditioning and little in the...

Every day presented an idyllic landscape: an abundance of orchards, ruins of pre-Romanesque churches, golden sand beaches and always a surpr...

With all the exotic places in the world, why would I return almost every after year to a tiny hamlet in Spain that's more than four ho...

Whenever someone finds out I'm a travel writer, invariably they'll ask, "What's your favorite place?" My response is t...

Michelle Obama certainly has great taste in vacation venues when she decided to holiday in southern Spain last week with her daughter, Sasc...

Whenever I've been in a classroom listening to a history lesson, I have to admit that it couldn't have been more boring. It all came...

TripBase, a very popular travel blog, recently started a tag-you’re-it game across the travel blogosphere. The idea is to collect a cool li...

Madrid is one of my specialties. And, because I often like quirky activities, I found that a walking tour with the offbeat (some might say e...

Ellen Barone (no relation) who has a new show on Blog Talk Radio called "Travel Talk" just interviewed me. Check it out. You'...

1. The most efficient and economical way of getting from one place to the other in Madrid is the Metro . If you plan on zipping all over the...

The Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza seem to attract all the touist attention. But there are other museums far out of the limelight...

I just returned from a week in Cadaques , a town in Spain ’s Catalunya region where Salvator Dali lived with Gala for many years. This seas...