Indian visa in hand, I boarded my flight to Mumbai without any incidents. I had a hotel booked that was about a 10 minute walk to the airport, so I ignored all the taxi touts and started on my way.…

Indian visa in hand, I boarded my flight to Mumbai without any incidents. I had a hotel booked that was about a 10 minute walk to the airport, so I ignored all the taxi touts and started on my way.…
After a 5.5 hour bus ride from Oviedo, I arrived in Madrid. I took a quick Metro ride to my hostel for the next 4 nights, which was another really nice hostel. One of those ones with curtains on the…
From Valencia, I had a train booked at 10:40am, arriving at 1:05pm at Puerta Atocha station in Madrid, then a 2:00pm bus booked to Oviedo, a small city in Northern Spain, from Estacion D’sur station. The stations are a 30…
Armed with tips from Rita on one of her favourite cities in Spain, I arrived in Sevilla in the morning, after a very early bus ride from Olvera. I had booked a room at an airbnb recommended by Rita, just…
Olvera Without a car, my options were more limited. But then again, so was my stress! Luckily, Rita had plenty of suggestions of things to do without a car. One night Rita and I had been walking on part of…
Olvera, one of the pueblas blancas in Andalucia, Spain I arrived in Olvera at the top of the hill, where I found Rita reserving a parking spot for me, one that didn’t require navigating the narrow streets of the town,…
After Granada, I had one night booked in Malaga to get a rental car for a week to explore the Andalucia Pueblas Blanca’s region from my friend Rita’s place in Olvera. It was also a good opportunity to make sure…
After the night bus adventures from Lisbon, I was surprisingly a bit sleepy when I got to Granada. I wandered around the city until I could check into my hostel, which was right in the middle of the Alacazin, the…
After Peniche, I grabbed a bus to Lisbon, where I had an overnight bus booked to Granada, Spain, leaving at 10:15pm. I know, I know. Night buses are always bad ideas. But it was an 11 hour trip and it…
After walking through city after city, I was ready for some beach time. I had booked 4 nights in the surf town of Peniche, about an hour north of Lisbon, but looking at the weather forecast I debated changing it.…