It only took approximately four months but Nik and I finally took a tour to Girona and Costa Brava. It was a small-group tour through In Out Barcelona Tours and was a great way to get a taste of the area. Costa Brava Costa Brava is a coastal region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain stretching…
A few weeks ago, the three of us left the city for a long weekend at the beach, mostly to avoid the fireworks and bonfires celebrating the Feast of Sant Joan. We settled on a weekend in Platja d’Aro, a cute beach town about 90 minutes north of Barcelona along the Costa Brava. Feast of Sant…
Once we decided that Lufthansa was the airline we wanted to fly to Barcelona, mostly because of their good reviews of flying animals, we decided to treat ourselves to business class seats. For the most part, their flights went through either Frankfurt or Munich, but only Frankfurt flights allow for animals. As we started looking…
After a year (or so) of researching and planning we finally arrived in Barcelona! Luckily, it was a pretty uneventful trip and Koval the dog was excited when we retrieved him at the BCN airport. (More on the process of flying a dog to come in a later and more detailed post.) After weeks of…
By our last full day in Madrid we had already covered a lot of ground so we chose to sleep in a bit. Well worth it. When we finally started the day, we made our way to Restaurante Botín for lunch. Founded in 1725, it is the oldest restaurant in the world in continuous operation….
On our second to last day in Madrid we started out at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía to see Picasso’s painting Guernica. It is possibly the most famous masterpiece in the museum. (No pictures allowed, so click the link or google to see.) Then we made our way to the El Retiro…