Geo: 42.818, -1.64422I don't know if my entry from yesterday went out. Somehow it had us in Zurs Lichtenstein instead of Zubiri, Spain. I'm having trouble remembering how to use TravelPod (not the easiest of interfaces). We haven't been updating for a couple of reasons - mostly because we're exhausted at the end of our day or don't have an internet connection. We have a great day today - yesterday was our anniversary 28 years and we splurged on an AirB&B apartment in Pamplona. So here's some of where we've been and what we've been doing the past week.Sunday, 4/24. After a train ride from Barcelona we were picked up at the train station by Istvan who with his wife Barbara run an albergue (hostel) in Viscarette, Spain and who will transport us by car over ... read more

Geo: 29.8973, -97.6783Okay. Another blog from us. Another trip. We're walking the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route across northern Spain. If you've seen the movie, The Way" - that's it. If not, we highly recommend it. It's 500 miles long from St. Jean Pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela near the west coast of Spain. Most people will take around 35 days to walk it. We're giving ourselves twice that. Our goal is 10 miles average per day, so 50 days right there. We have 3 days in Barcelona at the start, several rest days along the way and some time at the end in Portugal. If we finish sooner than 70 days I guess we'll go somewhere else in Europe. We've been training for over a year now - more ... read more

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236I don't know if I feel sad or relieved that today was the last full day of our stay in London. We started the day out with a trip to the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. We went with a tour guide who was highly recommended by Trip Advisor rather than figure it out by ourselves. It was a good decision. Matt from Fun London Tours took us on a 2 hour tour from Piccadilly Circus down to Buckingham Palace, pointing out items of interest along the way. There were only 6 in our group, so we got lots of personal attention. He showed us where to stand to get the best views - not of the actual changing of the guard (which is so far away it's hard to see anything) ... read more

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236I'll try to catch up today with quick summaries of the past 3 days. Sunday: We ventured out on our first full day on London. We went to Mass at Westminster Cathedral (not to be confused with Westminster Abbey which we're visiting Wednesday). It was a beautifully sung Mass in a beautiful setting. The cathedral was started in 1895, just a few years after the Catholic hierarchy was allowed to be restored in England.Afterwards we looked around the church and had tea and scones (1st time!) in the little cafe downstairs. We hopped back on the "tube" and headed for the British Museum. You could spend several days there seeing everything, so we just hit the highlights - the Elgin marbles, the Rosetta stone and many other incredible things. What I really liked about ... read more

Geo: 51.6999, -2.69966 We were beat from Thursday's excursion to Bath and decided that instead of exploring the Cotswolds (quaint, quintessential English villages about 50 miles away) we would rest and relax and stay closer to home. So we slept late, and then Charles, our host, showed us around his wonderful English garden. I'm so jealous of all the different plants he can grow that we can't grow in our dry and alkaline Texas soil (like peonies).So we decided to pop over to Wales - just 10 miles away, even though visiting Wales was not on our itinerary. We drove down the beautiful Wye River Valley, which divides England and Wales. All the signs are in Welsh first, with English below. We had lunch in Monmouth, a quaint village, and it was interesting to hear the ... read more