Time to weigh your blog consumption

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.

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Postcard from Salamanca, Spain: An unexpected blues fix

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Sometimes the unexpected is the best welcome to a new city….

The poor Mister has to leave his guitar harem behind when he travels, save one little electric travel guitar and a baby amp.

But Spaniard Susan Santos gave us a major blues fix at an intimate venue, El Corrillo, on our first night in Salamanca.

 

Bargain tapas and the blues. Mil gracias.

And thanks to the Mister for a willingness to temporarily part from all his girls at home.