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Whisky in my Pocket

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Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 15 & 16: Madrid – Lisbon – Newark – Vancouver – Victoria

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 15 & 16: Madrid – Lisbon – Newark – Vancouver – Victoria

Kirkby KirkJanuary 15, 2020June 2, 2026

If you’re choosing to read this, you should probably get comfortable and grab a coffee or something as it’s a bit of a long one… …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 13-14: Cordoba and Madrid

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 13-14: Cordoba and Madrid

Kirkby KirkJanuary 7, 2020June 2, 2026

We woke up this morning (trust me when I say there’s been a few times over the last couple of days where this has not …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 9-12: Jerez and Cordoba

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 9-12: Jerez and Cordoba

Kirkby KirkJanuary 3, 2020June 2, 2026

You know when you wake up and you have a little tickle at the back of your throat that sort of hints that you’ve got …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 8-9: Cádiz

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 8-9: Cádiz

Kirkby KirkJanuary 2, 2020June 2, 2026

We started our first full day in Cádiz off with our usual healthy breakfast of yogurt, fruit and granola then headed out into the sunshine …

Christmas in Spain – Day 7: Madrid to Cádiz

Christmas in Spain – Day 7: Madrid to Cádiz

Kirkby KirkJanuary 1, 2020June 2, 2026

Today we’re packing our bags and leaving Madrid for Cádiz – a four and a half hour train ride away. Our train was scheduled to …

Christmas in Spain – Day 6: Madrid

Christmas in Spain – Day 6: Madrid

Kirkby KirkDecember 28, 2019June 2, 2026

Ho ho ho… Merry Christmas… Feliz Navidad… It’s Christmas Day in Spain! Which we celebrated by sleeping in to about 9:30am… When we woke up, …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 5: Madrid

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 5: Madrid

Kirkby KirkDecember 27, 2019June 2, 2026

When we woke up this morning, I checked the tracking site that TAP had provided for us to see where things were at with Marie’s …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 4: Madrid

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 4: Madrid

Kirkby KirkDecember 26, 2019June 2, 2026

Our first full day in Madrid started with me – as quietly as I could because Marie was still sleeping – figuring out how to …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 3: Madrid

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 3: Madrid

Kirkby KirkDecember 24, 2019June 2, 2026

So my last post ended with us – along with a bunch of our fellow “Madrid 705” passengers -standing in line at the Lost Luggage …

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 2-2.5: Vancouver to Madrid

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Day 2-2.5: Vancouver to Madrid

Kirkby KirkDecember 23, 2019June 2, 2026

Now we’re really traveling. This is the real deal. Whenever you’re traveling and somehow, through the magic of time zones you journey for one day …

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"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

Edward Abbey

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