Once in a while, a layover between flights can prove to be a good thing and that's how I feel about my recent one-night stop in Ma...

Valencia, Spain, with its population of 800,000, has an abundance of booksellers. However, it's the unassuming little old bookstores of ...

MILA Today's blog post features a special guest writer – Mila, my granddaughter, a curious and talented nine-year-old. She's curre...

On a hill above Belem, Portugal sits Sant'Anna Fabrica (Calcada da Boa-Hora 96), the oldest operating Azulejos factory in Europe. This ...

It's the end of January and our three months in Europe are coming to an end. This visit has been unusual for us in many ways:  --It was...

PLAZA DE LA REINAc Merry Christmas from Valencia, Spain! Valencia (pop. 800,000) is the third largest city in Spain and is well-known for...