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12/3/22 St Emilion / Bordeaux France
Greetings from beautiful, but cold St Emilion France. Long drive last Thursday to arrive here, 9 hours and €35 in tolls. Quite a change in the weather as it’s cloudy and cold here 41 degrees Above is a wine Coop, it’s owned by grape growers and produces over 50 estate brands and 10 of its…
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11/30/22 Valencia Spain
Greetings from beautiful Valencia Spain. Long drive yesterday from Malaga to Valencia, seven hours in total. We are staying in the Historic Central area, so we had to park the trusty Peugeot underground a few blocks away. Valencia is a large City, 1.7 million inhabitants. It was founded by the Romans in 300 BC or…
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11/27/22 Calle Larios, Malaga Spain
Greetings from beautiful Malaga, Spain Malaga is famous for its Christmas light show throughout the city. The lights run from 11/26/22-1/06/23. They are centered on Calle Larios, a main shopping area of Central Malaga. Let’s take look. Ok, one more day in Malaga, then a six hour drive to Valencia on Tuesday. Can’t tell you…
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11/25/22 Nerja and Ronda Spain
Greetings and Happy Holidays from the Costa del Sol! Tour guide Cindy and I have been busy here in the sunny, but windy south of Spain. Cindy says we are going to take a road trip to Nerja, about an hour north on the Spanish coast. She says, let’s take a bus ride to avoid…
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11/22/22 Costa del Sol, Marbella Spain
Greetings from beautiful Costa del Sol, Spain Tour guide Cindy and I have been resting and walking the beautiful city of Malaga the last three days. Fantastic walking and people watching here. Cathedral Malaga, Cindy attended Mass here on Sunday. On Sunday we decided to take the bus down the promenade to a restaurant we’ve…
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11/18/22 Malaga Spain
Greetings from beautiful Malaga, Spain, where we awoke to a morning of rain, so I decided to write a quick blog post. Phoenicians started the city, 600 BC, then Greeks, Romans, Islamic rule, crusaders and plague. All leading to TOURISTS 😎 Actually, they have several industries in the area, including a Tech hub. But tourism…
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11/17/22 Malaga Spain
Greetings from beautiful Malaga Spain and the Costa del Sol, coast of the sun. After a very wet four hour trip (it poured for most of the time) across the SW portion of Spain, we arrived in Malaga, our new home for the next two weeks. Adios Amigos!
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11/14/22 Cadiz Spain
Greetings from beautiful and warm Cadiz Spain and the south of Spain Tour guide Cindy wanted to take a ferry ride to nearby Santa Maria so off we go! We are so impressed with Cadiz. We had visited here for a day in 2019 and were hoping to enjoy our stay here. Cadiz far exceeded…
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11/10/22 White Villages of Andalusia
Greetings from the beautiful and sunny south of Spain! Well, we did have a couple hours of rain on Tuesday AM, so there’s that 😜 Tour guide Cindy and I spent Tuesday walking and exploring more of Cadiz! (25,000 steps) After a wonderful shrimp dinner she says “ Road trip tomorrow, with hills and steps…
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11/07/22-11/08/22 Cadiz and Sevilla Spain
Ok,we talked about the parking for the trusty Peugeot underground using an elevator, here ya go Tour guide Cindy says, “You’ve had a day off, so let’s go to Sevilla, it’s only 1 1/2 hours away”. So off we go.
Trafton’s European Tour 2022/2023 