Above: A peacock on the grounds of Real Alcazar in Seville, Spain
Are you sure you’re feeling okay? On examining the list of the most-read posts during the past twelve months, it hit me what is missing. Food. I think this might be the first time since launching these biannual roundups that not one post about restaurants appears on the list. Perhaps while I’m out plumping up during travels, all my readers are on Ozempic.
It always surprises me how different my list of favorites would be than yours. Your interests remain all over the map, which is good because postcard delivery lags way behind our travels. I have a full album of photos waiting to pop up willy-nilly from Mexico, Italy, Spain, England, France, Turkey and the Netherlands.
Above, images from some of your favorite posts: Scopa players in Castello di Rivoli; votive offerings in the Cathedral in Mexico City; and a mezcal cocktail in Palermo.
Following established precedents, the numbers in parentheses indicate rankings from six months ago when applicable.
- Postcard from Palermo, Sicily: When cocktails beckon, 2023 (3)
- Postcard from Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy: History with a horse hanging overhead, 2019 (1)
- Zilker Park: Founded on a fortune made in ice, 2021 (9)
- Postcard from Mexico City: The Lord of Poison and potent relics, 2017 (8)
- A place to seek miracles, 2020 (4)
- Postcard from San Antonio, Texas: Time to toast the Alamo Trust, 2023 (2)
- Postcard from Toulouse, France: A basilica with great bones (2022)
- The Madarasz murder mystery: Might Helen haunt Brackenridge Park, 2012 (5)
- Postcard from Burgos, Spain: A few parting impressions (2023)
- Postcard from Siracusa, Sicily: Protector of eyes and the quill, 2023 (12)
- Postcard from Sevilla, Spain: If a resident peacock fanned his tail inside Real Alcazar would anyone even notice (2019)
- Women belt out the blues to help preserve Austin history (2023)
Above: Saint Simon the Magician on a basilica in Toulouse; Sue Foley and Brannen Temple playing at Women of Antone’s in Austin; peering upwards inside Real Alcazar in Seville; and a nesting stork in Burgos.
Please keep on wandering here with me and feel free to chat back or offer corrections any time.
Postcards from Barton Springs 