Heading to Europe – Looking for Input

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Duke and I will be on the road again soon. We are heading to Europe. Our plans are to  spend 5 weeks in Spain and then head north for another 3 weeks.  We will fly home from Estonia. You can see our itinerary below.

This link has a Google map of our route.

If you have been to any of these places and have suggestion of things we should do or see, or places to eat or stay please let me know.  We have all our reservations for Spain but beyond that we are pretty much open. I really appreciated the excellent suggestions we got for our last trip!

I am also excited because we are meeting up with friends from Reno and will be travelling with them for parts of the trip.

Here is our itinerary:

  1. Barcelona, Spain
  2. Madrid
  3. Sevilla
  4. Cadiz
  5. Ronda
  6. Malaga
  7. Granada
  8. Ubeda
  9. Cazorla
  10. Córdoba
  11. Madrid
  12. Cuenca
  13. Alarcón
  14. Lorca
  15. Mojácar
  16. Xàbia
  17. Teruel
  18. Alcañiz
  19. Tortosa
  20. Palau-Saverdera
  21. Vic-Sau
  22. Cardona
  23. Andorra
  24. Lleida
  25. Sigüenza
  26. Madrid
  27. Barcelona
  28. Paris, France
  29. Amsterdam, Netherlands
  30. Berlin, Germany
  31. Krakow, Poland
  32. Warsaw, Poland
  33. Suwalki, Poland
  34. Kaunas, Lithuania
  35. Vilnius, Lithuania
  36. Riga, Latvia
  37. Tallinn, Estonia

San Jose, Costa Rica

Our last full day in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we fly to Houston and then to San Francisco. Today we checked out the Costa Rica Jade Museum. It’s a five story relatively new building and very interesting.

Our last dinner of the trip was at La Diez Parilla Argentina, quite near our hotel. My steak was tender and tasty and the service was great. They told us they had only been open four months.

Cachi

This morning Duke and I hiked up the trail that we scoped out yesterday. It starts just above where we are staying and goes up, up, up. It was only about a mile total and 500 feet elevation gain but it felt pretty steep. The humidity is so high here that my glasses fog up when we hike and sweat immediately starts running off my body.

The rest of the day we just took it easy and enjoyed this peaceful spot.

Puerto Viejo to Cachi

La Costa de Pepito where we stayed in Puerto Viejo the last two night was wonderful. I especially liked how our bungalow was open air and very much one with the tropical environment. The whole time we were there we would occasionally hear a strange very load noise that I can only describe as the sound of an unhappy donkey braying. This morning before we left I asked what that noise was. They said it was howler monkeys!!

Today we retraced our steps back towards San Jose where we will turn our car in on Sunday morning.

We are staying at a beautiful spot in the mountains near Cachi, Hotel Quelitales. It feels very remote although it is less than thirty miles from San Jose. After we got here we checked out the waterfall and the hiking trail.

Our bungalow is very comfortable and modern.

Our dinner tonight st the hotel was one of the best we have had on the entire trip.