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A home exchange and a flatulent turtle in Madrid
Our home exchange home outside Madrid, you can see the fear on its face if you look closely After 5 weeks in Spain Blonde and Brunette were fairly bedraggled. We’d had a wonderful time but had also had...
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Valencia: Slightly quirky, very hot and with much to offer (like us)
Guess they don’t play beach blanket bingo ( ¿bingo de manta de playa?) here. When Blonde and Brunette began to plan our home exchange trip to Spain we wanted to throw in a few extra destinations. Much...
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Capture the Color Photo Essay Contest
For a change we will try to leave the speaking (primarily) to the photographs: White: Whirling dervishes at a ceremony outside Cappadocia, Turkey We were visiting Turkey but had no plan to see whirling...
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Home Exchange – Wish we knew then what we know now
4 bedroom, 3 bath apartment overlooking the sea in an exclusive town in the Costa Brava region of Spain Don’t we all! For one thing we wouldn’t have married the men we did. Whoops – got off topic –...
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We are off to collect more beautiful ceilings!
What ceilings all look like in Southwest Florida – Zen or boring? As Blonde and Brunette prepare to embark on our next adventure we hope to bring back memories of food, nature, architecture,...
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Three continents – Three spectacular botanical gardens
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa (the plants in the lower right are cycads, more on them later) In our travels Blonde and Brunette have found botanical gardens to be oases of...
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3 free fun things to do in Barcelona
Free, beautiful and reliable – an unusual combination of characteristics! Barcelona is the favorite city of both Blonde and Brunette and one reason is that, although there’s no shortage of interesting...
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Calella de Palafrugell; a seaside jewel on the Costa Brava in Spain
We spent about 9 weeks, 4 of them in Calella de Palafrugell, on the Costa Brava in less than a year. We explored, and were charmed by, many of the seaside towns. Our favorite was Calella de...
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The Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres; a fun day trip from Barcelona
Barcelona is such a beautiful and fascinating city that you may think we’re daft to suggest you leave it for a day trip . Well, we are a bit daft, but you should not get this close to the Dali Museum...
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What is “luxury” travel to you?
Us looking what we hope is poshish, yet modest, at Bord Eau Restaurant in Abu Dhabi. Luxury travel: Necessity or root of all evil? We know people and travel companies who say they are all about luxury...
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2013 in review – no wonder we’re tired!
Young, innocent and happy! (not pictured) It was a dark and stormy night. No wait, it was a bright and sunny day and Blonde and Brunette were out and about on a dolphin-delight wave runner tour of the...
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