Travel Review: Trip to Spain, Madrid, Barcelona, Art Museums, Medieval Villages, Bike Riding

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Kurt K.

4.23.2019

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Which Country (Countries) did you visit on this trip?

Spain

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

From the initial phone call two months before our trip until we were dropped off at the airport to fly home, the interaction with and performance of our travel specialist closely approached flawlessness. Once we landed in Barcelona, every planned pick-up by drivers or guides went like clockwork. We engaged 7 guides on our trip and the all of them were great. We did some negotiating and collaborating with our travel specialist on what to include and exclude on the itinerary, and we ended up with the right choices. We could not have asked more from our travel specialist or the travel company.

Our travel specialist responded with foresight to three potential “trouble-spots” that would take too much space to fully describe here, but they were basically our very early morning arrival to Barcelona, concern for the effects of Holy Week Processions on our ability to depart Sevilla, and concern for the effects of a strike by airport workers and its effect on our departure home from the Madrid airport. Our travel specialist thought ahead and really took care of us. We are grateful for our travel specialist and the travel company for the wonderful care they provided us.

What were the most enjoyable or memorable parts of your trip?

I cannot single out one, or two, or even just three parts of our trip. Spain was a revelation, and with our guides’ input we enjoyed every city, monument, mosque, church, and architectural gem we visited. Learned so much history too. I would list these aspects, but there was so much more:

The architecture of Antoni Gaudi, including the Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, Casa Mila aka La Pedrera, and Casa Vicens.
The general beauty of the city of Barcelona, old and new. Heck, the general beauty of all the places we went to in Spain.
The Gothic Quarter in Barcelona.
The three medieval villages through which we biked, about 25 minutes outside of Barcelona.
The Alhambra in Granada, and the restaurant at which we had a special birthday dinner.
The Mezquita mosque cum cathedral in Cordoba.
The Alcazar Palace, and enormous cathedral in Sevilla.
The Prado Art Museum in Madrid.

If you could take your trip again, what would you do differently?

Sometimes our itinerary got a little hectic, with one event or pick-up after another. Even if it meant adding a day or two to our overall trip, I think we would have been more relaxed and benefited from spacing out our tours and the pick-ups for transport from one city to another. I’ll keep that in mind next time.

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