After a few days in Madrid, we took the high speed train to Barcelona. We were able to catch a cab outside of the Barcelona train station to the Gothic Quarter, where Hotel Neri is located. The cabs are typically not allowed in the pedestrian-only streets in the Gothic Quarter, so we rolled our bags for about a 5 minute walk into the center of the quarter to get to Hotel Neri. It was HOT, but when we arrived, the…
Hotel Catalonia Las Cortes came highly recommended from multiple sources and we stayed here from June 11-14, 2022. If you’ve been following me, you will know that I prefer to spend my European trips staying at boutique hotels rather than large chains. You typically get more personalized service, and almost always get more interesting rooms. Well, the Catalonia hotels are a chain, and I can’t really speak to the chain itself, since this is the first and only Catalonia hotel…
One of our anniversary trip stops took us to the Copal Tree Lodge in Punta Gorda, Belize for a week in February of 2019. Punta Gorda is about as far south as you can get in Belize before Honduras, and is pretty rustic compared to other, more toursity places in Belize. You have to take a small plane that makes several stops at towns along the way either via Maya Island Air or Tropic Air. Punta Gorda is the…