Cadiz – Whisky in my Pocket

Christmas in Spain 2019 – Days 8-9: Cádiz

by 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

by 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… The Plan

by KirkDecember 4, 2019June 2, 2026

So if you’ve read any of my previous trip blogs you’ll know that there’s always a plan. A very detailed plan. There might even be …

"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