by Tonya Robison | Mar 1, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations., Spanish culture at its best.
Calahorra is a town about 30 miles southeast of Logroño. Knowing that the town was having their annual March ‘fiestas’ and that Cristina had many good friends from there, we were off on another adventure to check out what these ‘días de fiestas’ were all about. We...
by Tonya Robison | Feb 11, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations., Spanish culture at its best.
Today, Fermín and I went off on an excursion to a village about an hour outside of Logroño, to the highest pueblo in La Rioja, Santa Marina. On our way we started out with some dark clouds over top and as we headed up the mountain and crossed over into a totally...
by Tonya Robison | Feb 7, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations., Spanish culture at its best.
Our last couple of days were spent on my stomping grounds in La Rioja. We started out in Laguardia, a well know village surrounded by vineyards and wineries in the north of Rioja. We were lucky enough to stay in the bed and breakfast that is owned by my friend,...
by Tonya Robison | Feb 7, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations.
País Vasco, the next province on or our list to visit, is like another world in itself. The language spoken there actually has no connections or roots to any other language and definitely has nothing in common with Spanish, or Castilian, as they call the Spanish...
by Tonya Robison | Feb 3, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations., Spanish culture at its best.
Although we were on the verge of turning around and going back to the sunny beaches of Barcelona after a couple of rainy days on the west coast, we went on with our scheduled plan to our next destination in Gijón, where we left the province of Galicia and entered into...
by Tonya Robison | Feb 1, 2013 | A little of everything., Captivating Spanish destinations.
After taking an overnight train from Barcelona we woke up and opened our window to cute little towns filled with green mossy trees and lots of farmland, quite a change from where we had just come the day before in the big city! We loved the train, calling to have our...
