I've got to get out and take some fresh pictures this weekend. When I started my walk home last night I reminded myself to keep an eye out for anything interesting, but I just wasn't motivated. Bleak January! Maybe today when Dave and I go up to the hardware store for paint samples.
I've had a rude awakening about our upcoming Spain trip. Someone in the comments recommended that we get our tickets to the Alhambra ahead of time. This seemed a little crazy, given that it's almost a month away, but I tried to go online and buy advance tickets, and guess what? SOLD OUT! They have availability the week before and the week after, but not a single day of the week we're in the country. Of course this is because everyone is on a half-term break from school, I imagine.
I wrote our hotel to see if they could hook us up somehow, but I haven't heard back yet. If we can't get into the Alhambra it won't be the end of the world -- I've seen it (albeit 32 years ago) and although Dave hasn't, he also doesn't seem particularly invested. I did buy advance tickets to the cathedral in Córdoba, so at least we'll be sure to see that.
Traveling is not like it was in the '90s, when you could just show up at the front gate.
Blogger was doing more weird things yesterday. I couldn't reply to comments and I couldn't see my entire blog roll, which is how I click back to read everyone else's blogs. The problem seems fixed this morning, thank goodness.
(Photo: A plaza off Edgware Road, last weekend.)
Enjoy your paint choosing trip!
ReplyDeleteI had blogger glitches yesterday too, seems OK again today.
Will you be visiting the Mezquita in Cordoba? It is amazing . We have been a couple of times and never tire of it.
ReplyDeleteI have just bought our tickets for the Royal Palace - the Alcazar - in Seville. Just got the last ones for the day we wanted!
Yes, everyone was having commenting problems.
ReplyDeleteWhen we stayed next to Sagrada Familiar, we expected we could just walk in and take a look. It was a three day booking wait, and we weren't in Barcelona for long enough to do that. Yes, travel has changed, and is so much harder now.
I never would have thought about reservations a while back. Now we check on everything. Can’t believe we’ll be seeing you in less than a month! And, yes, Blogger was a bigger pain than usual yesterday.
ReplyDeleteBlogger was playing me up as well, but as you say it's working OK today.
ReplyDeleteBlogger has been having a hissy fit of late. I keep reminding myself that it is free and easy to use. Till it has a hissy fit. -17 this morning -- real temp, not wind chill. Is that square photo current? You have leaves on trees? It's lovely at any rate.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about Spain and the Alhambra. You're right -- travel has changed. A lot.
Enjoy your paint choosing...I'm about to try a couple of samples here to see how different they look in daylight and artificial light.
ReplyDeleteMy blog was doing that yesterday, too, but seems fine today!
ReplyDeleteI also remember traveling and just showing up at the things you wanted to do, an dnow it's all pre-order and specific times and such!
Hopefully your hotel can help.
I like shades of pink, peach, apricot for walls. They make people look better!
ReplyDeleteI think we are nearly all experiencing glitches of various sorts with Blogger at the moment. A sure sign they are going to change something, just as we all have gotten used to the last lot of changes!
ReplyDeleteI think you should set yourself the challenge of finding the most mundane and boring things you can find to photograph, of course that means no doubt that loads of good things will appear just to tease you. ;-)
I have read that other bloggers using blogspot have had the same issues. Hopefully it is resolved now. And you will get to see Mitchell! Yay!
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