Hotel Historic Girona

Hotel Historic, in Girona, Spain. A town to the northeast of Barcelona. We will stay here the longest out of our entire trip, 10 days. We hope that this will be used as time to settle down before departing for the U.S. We will depart from Barcelona at ...

April 23 Saturday  Girona  FEAST OF ST JORDI Masses of people everywhere today….it is customary for the gentleman to buy a single rose and give it  to his lady…so all the women are walking around carrying a rose, most along with ...

... not yet posted, and all my work stuff and all my contacts…..just do not even want to think about it. Took off from Hotel Historic, down the narrow medieval lanes, zigzagging this way and that, to get out of Girona, and off to the Sea.   ...

... morning we checked out of our hotel in Girona (Hotel Lleguendes) -- I could have stayed there awhile...it was a beautiful hotel that was a historic building, but with very modern interior.  We rented a car at the Avis office by the train station ...

... they got that, but it did have a new modern part of town, and then bridges which separate the modern section with a historic, mostly Jewish old quarter of town that dated back like a thousand years. Cool, narrow cobblestone streets, and buildings.  ...

... . We spent the evening doing some much needed laundry. The following day was just as windy, but fine. We spent most of the day in the historic centre of town just walking around the great little place, eating good food & watching the world go by. ...

... short of spooky, beautiful and surreal. The next day we visited the city of Carcassonne which is a good size town whose historic area was also a Cathar castle in the 1100s. Carcassonne was originally settled by the Romans and later built up to be a ...

... of the city, got on and off and just truly trippe out at all the info we were learning from these incredible historic places. Places we visited included the spanish forum, the pantheon, piazza fenizza, and piazza popolono....totally cool!!!! That night ...