We spent six days in Elmsford as we returned from France. I gotta say that having Elmsford to break up the Seattle - Paris journey is fabulous. Instead of a 11-hour Paris - Seattle flight, we have a one 7-1/2 hour flight (Paris - JFK), a six hour time change and six days to recover from it, then a six...
(Full post)Esgrafiado, applied to architecture, describes the technique of creating 3-d patterns on walls. We loved seeing buildings with this decoration. Segovia must have hundreds of them; we saw maybe half. Once we’d noticed them, we searched them out.
(Full post)The last stop on our “Greatest Hits of Spain” tour is also the place I’ve known longest in Spain, not counting Madrid: Segovia. It is also a place with which I have some emotional ties.
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