We, the authors (representing my various personalities, a diagnosis we have never fully embraced except when it was useful as an alibi) wish to extend our apologies for the recent hiatus in the production of this highly popular journal (already FIVE registered followers!).
It has probably been assumed that the cause of the pause is that we have been summoned to audiences with royal families, feted by the famous at fabulous soirees or were asked to speak on important topics to large crowds. None of this is true. Not that we haven’t received such offers– we have, but have thought it best to respectfully decline all such invitations in the interests of maintaining our impartial position as unbiased observers of culture and history.
No, the true cause in the brief cessation of publication is more prosaic and mundane, and is simply attributable to one of the deepest and truest of the human conditions: Time. To wit, there has been too little of it between bouncing from place to place every two days, spending most of all waking hours walking or driving or being driven, eating occasionally, sleeping fitfully when at all and, most of all, keeping our promise to ourselves that we would no longer indulge in further 2:30 am blogging sessions, in spite of the many opportunities said sleeplessness might offer.
However, we have now reached our destination in La Bella Firenze and are able to unpack both our bags and our souls for a few weeks; thus, Loyal Readers, you may expect to soon find new offerings in your inboxes!
Meanwhile we offer these few visual temptations to resist the urge to change the channel and watch reruns of Gilligan’s Island instead of reading, although we admit that either would be similarly enlightening.
Somewhere inside that smoke is a car. No further information, but the police didn’t seem alarmed so we assume nobody was in it.
The Spanish flag over the Prado Museum.
A rare shot of Hyperion pulling the sun across the sky. Sorry, couldn’t get the sun in the shot…
Mickey and Minnie visiting Madrid’s Plaza del Sol. Minnie looks as though she needs a cigarette…
Random Madrid street scene with obligatory Spanish flag.
Madrid’s celebration of Columbus Day, a national holiday in Spain.
A big rock in the disputed territory and theme park known as Gibraltar.
A meeting of Gibraltar’s Parliament?
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica, with an attempt to minimize the omnipresent cranes.
Barcelona, La Rambla
Columbus in Barcelona, pointing the wrong direction.
Athena was kind enough to lend me her symbol as my totem. Barcelona.
Stay tuned for more!
soggiorno13 
Looks like an amazing adventure so far! Love the pictures.
I’m doing my traveling through you and am well satisfied. Any trip with monkeys add value!!