Choosing a hotel that meets the budget and everyone’s expectations on a family vacation in Spain isn’t always easy. The Bashful Adventurer finds a delightful hotel in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona.
Category: Spain
Shirley MacLaine’s Camino Adventure
A Journey of the Actor’s Mind, Body, and Spirit in One Volume Actress Shirley MacLaine—of Downton Abbey, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, and Postcards from the Edge fame—also has a bit of a New Age-bent. She takes quite an interesting mind journey as she walks the Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of…
Slacking the Saint James
Doing the Camino de Santiago Your Way The little nagging fear about embarking on a pilgrimage is, at least in my case, that everyone else on the trail will be a whole lot more religious than I am. So it is with some pleasure that I pick up yet another book about someone walking the…
Tempted to Walk the Path of Saint James
Until reading Sonia Choquette’s book, Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed, I had no idea that travelers deliberately seek to walk the paths of original disciples of Jesus Christ. In a little over a month, and not being a rugged outdoorsy type, Choquette covered the 500-plus mile long Camino de Santiago in Spain….