So We Are Back From Our Spain Holiday Trip

Every holiday is an unique journey.  Cliche as it sounds, it’s true.  It’s what one takes home from each journey that makes some journeys more memorable than others.  This trip to Spain is probably one of our more adventurous trips so far.  Not that we are a pair of adventurous travellers to start with.  But one that is enough for us to look back and have a good laugh on some of the silly things we did, shocking experiences we have encountered.  And etc.

I took more than 2,200 photos, afterI have deleted 20% of what I took on the fly.  Sometimes I wonder.  If we stitch up all the photos every human being has taken, the same monument taking in millions of different perspectives, along a time scale in continuum, under different lighting conditions, and etc., would that be a fair representation of  our modern history?  Too much Cubism in my head.  Thanks to the unending lineup of museums Spain has to offer.

We hardly plan our holiday to the minute details, like some do.  Not that we are so lazy that we just figure things out at the last minute, the absolute moment some decisions have to be made – though I must admit that there is some element of truth in it – to us, there are so much uncertainties and things that we don’t know about what we have yet to experience.  So, we research on our options such as where to stay, what to do, and we exercise our options as we journey.

So, what have I taken home from this trip?  I think I have got to know myself a bit better, know Cynthia a bit better.  Having some basic command of Spanish – however little it is – certainly makes our trip a lot more interesting.  We manage to decipher some basic words and signs and we learn along the way.  And I think I have lived in this region – unfortunately – long enough to look at the rest of the world with a certain lens, a certain set of assumptions.  It is good to be displaced out of the box during oversea trips, I think.  Keep observing, keep learning.

For those who are curious on what happened after we’ve landed in Barcelona (for we had no clue when we started our holiday), we did a semi-guided city tour and then rented a car to visit Valéncia, Toledo, and Madrid.  Then we ditched the car and did a self-guided tour within the capital of Spain.  Took a budget flight and visited the island resort of Mallorca.  Rented a car and toured around the island in our own pace.  On the way back, we stole some moments and revisited Barcelona again, briefly.  That pretty much sums up what we did.

Stay tuned for more sharing of photos and day-to-day journey.  I intend to publish an article every Sunday.  Hey, it’s good to be back.

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