Navidad en Cartagena
Position: 37° 35′ 49″N 0° 58′ 48″W Today marks our third Christmas on Aleta. In 2017 we awoke in Swansboro, Carolina del Norte (as we say here), anchored in a river on the Intra-Coastal Waterway. Later in the day we …
Category: Underway
Ronda, or Orson and Ernest Fistfight in Heaven
Position: 36° 44′ 26”N 5° 9′ 57”W “You have to see Ronda,” Carol said. “When Tai and I were here a few years ago, we fell in love with the place.” Driving into the city from the east it was …
Córdoba’s Finest
Position: 37° 52′ 45” N 4° 46′ 47” W My instinctual response upon entering Córdoba’s stunning mosque-cathedral was an overwhelming sense of peace. It is late November and the tourists have thinned out to where I easily found a modicum …
Thanksgiving
Position: 36° 48′ 51″N 2° 33′ 40″ W The origin of modern Thanksgiving in America is probably apocryphal. As schoolchildren Americans are taught that the Pilgrims celebrated their deliverance to the New World in harmony with an indigenous people. A …
By Hook or By Crook
Position: 36° 59′ 4″N 7° 50′ 46″W Over the last year we got pretty good at gunkholing around the Caribbean. Finding anchorages out of the way of local fishing boats, in the lee of impending weather, we’d hang off our …
Photos: Lisbon
Position: 38° 43′ 20” N 9° 8′ 21” W Just as Dr. Pangloss is about to prove à priori the Bay of Lisbon was purpose-made for drowning James the Anabaptist, the ship he and his ward Candide are sailing on …
Photos: Iberian Street Art
Position: ATLANTIC SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Portugal and Spain have lively street art scenes. There is hardly a public space, or public vehicle, that’s not tagged with slashes of black spray paint. Some are covered in the flowing, garishly coloured letters …
BANKSY
Position: 38° 41′ 51” N 9° 11′ 27” W Banksy, the reclusive street artist and practical joker, has dominated the very public art form s/he created for over 30 years. It is unclear if the anonymous Banksy is a man …
A Credo from a Door in Lisbon
Position: 38° 42′ 7” N 09° 10′ 41” W Lisbon’s Lx Factory is a little confusing. It’s billed as an artsy center for creatives and while there’s a bit of that, it seems like it’s mostly tourist shops with cutesy …