Great post! Thanks for this post - I love Menorca! The St. Joan Festival is a fun time to go too - for more information you can check out my blog post on what it's like: http://www.thetoastyavocados.com/cool-shit/2015/7/1/island-hopping-part-ii-the-unknown-gem-of-menorca?rq=menorca
We went to Iceland with our grandson 6 years ago but in the summer and had more sunny days from the looks of your photos. But you certainly got a lot of sights in in a short time! The scenery is majestic and fascinating and the Blue Lagoon is the best place to spend a relaxing day. In fact we went back for more. There is another similar warm spring lake in the north, a little more "nature". Did you sample the night life? Very friendly and active so we heard...
nightlifein Reykjavik Thanks for commenting, Julia. No, I didn't get out to the pubs, as I was alone and was completely exhausted from my full days of sightseeing. But, I, too, have heard the nightlife in Reykjavik is fun. When i was there, there sure were a lot of young people from different countries visiting Iceland.
Iceland Hi Hilary - thanks for this...I have wanted to go there for ages and didn't know about the stopover possibility. Maybe for my next visit to California!
Blue Lagoon Dear Hilary - I'm just back from a soak in the Blue Lagoon. Can't thank you enough for mentioning your massage. I partially tore my Achille's playing tennis a few weeks beforehand and feel like a new person now after having a treatment there. I've still got a ways to go before full recovery but am on the healing path. I'd love to buy one of those floating mats if I could find a source. We're here for another week so perhaps I'll pay another visit and remember to ask next time. Hugs across the waters, Jack*
Blue Lagoon, massages, etc. Hi jacke, Sorry to hear about your Achilles heel. Wasn't the massage on the floating mattress great? I do hope you got back to the Blue Lagoon. Did you also go to the "secret lagoon"? Much smaller, no massages, but also very relaxing. Enjoy the rest of your trip.
Great Travel Blog Thank you, Hilary, for posting such a comprehensive report on this trip. I just signed up to subscribe. Your photography is also excellent. Bon Voyage!
You are having fun You are a busy bee skipping all the serious things in order to gather all these pictures around the city. Now that you are out on the island,
tell me all about how that is going.
Love
T
Loved the amazing adventures of Tom and Hillary Thoroughly enjoyed having both points of view! Very happy you were "saved" from misadventure by Arab guardian angels! Extremely impressed by how much you were able to see and how good a grasp of things you had after such a short time! Yes, beautiful, breathtaking... and also depressing. As usual, the photos are fabulous. Can't wait for the next installment from the dynamic travelling duo!
makes me want to go there Hilary, Your article on the Cinque Terra really made me want to go there. Sorry about the camera theft (sounds like theft to me!). But loved the pictures you took with your throwaway. Thanks for sharing your adventures. And I agree with the person who wrote "Such energy"!
Such enterprise! I was going to head this - Such Energy! This was a fantastic trip, and makes me long to go back to Italy again. But not on foot, alas. There you outpace me completely.
Sorry about the camera loss. Is that your new one?
I recall some happy days I spent in Cinque Terra in 1985. Wow, how time flies! There weren\'t that many hotels there then and I rented a room in someone\'s home right on the edge of a cliff. Also took the little train and walked Via del amore, where someone offered his \"love.\"
I only know Jersey spent two weeks there, which I remember with pleasure, what impressed me most was hiking along the coastal pathways and walking through the villages and their lanes (very few cars) and feeling as if in an Agatha Christie novel!
thanks Hilary I feel as if I have returned from a wonderful trip to Guernsey...without all the hassel!
Loved the photos and comments about your friends in SM; you can be our publicity agent!
Hilary Kaiser--a writer, blogger, cross-cultural trainer and retired academic-- shares her travel adventures with friends and family around the world. (See also www.hilarykaiser.com and www.hilarykaiser.wordpress.com). Author of "WW Voices: American GI's and the French Women Who Married Them" (a paperback and ebook available on Amazon.com and Smashwords) and "French War Brides in America."... full info
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Thanks for this post - I love Menorca! The St. Joan Festival is a fun time to go too - for more information you can check out my blog post on what it's like: http://www.thetoastyavocados.com/cool-shit/2015/7/1/island-hopping-part-ii-the-unknown-gem-of-menorca?rq=menorca