Burning the Inheritance

On Thursday June 1st, after breakfast and a morning yoga session for Colleen, we climbed back into our rented Kia Picanto and headed south from Taghazout Morocco bound for a small town called Sidi Ifni, the final stop on our trip down the Moroccan Atlantic coast.  We first heard about Sidi Ifni from our son…

On Monday May 29th, still in Essaouira Morocco, we spent the morning getting organized and dealing with some odd tasks, and checking out of our house at the last possible moment.  The reason for this was somewhat strategic as we were on our way to the Essaouira Airport to rent a car and wanted to…

On Thursday May 25th, we took a taxi to the Marrakesh bus station and boarded a bus bound for the city of Essaouira, which is on the Moroccan Atlantic coast about 115 miles due east of Marrakesh.  Our son had spent some time there in 2011 and strongly advocated that we include it in our…

Our trip from Glasgow Scotland to Marrakesh Morocco was, in contrast to some of our more recent travels, fairly uneventful.  As was the case when we came to Scotland, what seemed to make the most sense in getting from there to Morocco was to fly. As I’ve said before, we tend to have a preference…

Editor’s Note: During the Scotland leg of our travels we visited three different places, all of which were originally published in a single installment which turned out to be quite lengthy. After review and finding a few too many typos, we elected to republish in three segments to make the read a bit more manageable…

The Road to Islay So, what I didn’t mention in the last Scotland installment was a little glitch in our transportation plans which occurred during our last day in Edinburgh.  We thought that we were all booked on the same flight from Glasgow to Islay the next day.  But when we (Ritch and Colleen) did…

Glasgow, is the largest city in Scotland with 1 million people in the urban center and about 2 million in the metro area.  It is located along on the River Clyde and is known for its beautiful old buildings which are evidence of its prosperity as a trade and shipbuilding center during the 18th to…

After a pretty busy swing through Northern Europe concluding in 16 jam-packed days in Paris, we were looking for some relaxing time.  Our original itinerary had anticipated spending 3 or 4 weeks in Valencia, Spain, but we learned the hard way that when you plan on staying somewhere for more than a few days, it…

So what’s left? Putting together this blog forces you to go back, at least once, to recount the things you saw and did in a particular place.  Over 16 days in a city like Paris, this can include a lot which, for us, it did.  While we covered most of it, there are still a…