We arrived in Madrid in the mid-afternoon of Saturday, 2/28/26. Neither of us were too tired since we did manage to sleep a bit on both legs of the journey eastward. We checked in at our Madrid lodgings, the Mandarin Oriental Ritz Hotel. That Mandarin Oriental part of the name is very recent Read more

I'm really not a chocolate person. That's not to say I don't like chocolate, I do. But chocolate people (you know who you are) have a totally different relationship with chocolate than I do. They not only love chocolate, they need it. They appreciate chocolate in a way I never will. Still, even Read more

Achtung, bitte. Hello from Frankfurt airport in Germany. We are passing through here on our way to Madrid, so this is a preseason post to kick things off and make sure my custom blogging systems are working OK. The plan is to spend a few days seeing Madrid with a day trip to the ancient town of Read more