Costa Brava calls -- Dali dabbling and beyond -- here's looking at you!

CLIFF DWELLERS DANCE and TECHNO-STRETCH AS WE TRY TO ADVANCE BLOG SCHEDULE!

   

                                                                                         
STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS
PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER

BUBBLY from the vineyards of  Costa Brava, the equal of French champagne, at one-third the price......
Views to fall off a cliff for...... from our bird's eye view in Parador Aiguablava. (This world-class hotel proves the government CAN run something successfully, at least in Spain!)
Salvador Dali lithos at every turn.....
Keller's favorite anchovy-stuffed olives...
ALL THIS and more.
We are trying to schedule blogs ahead preparing for a two-week cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas, with touring, pampering, reading.  We have no idea if we're succeeding in peeling away the technical red tape. So we're letting you know that we're experimenting on you, while pondering why five-star hotels persist in keeping telephones by the toilet.

Cookie and Keller at play, with more on their revels coming soon.  The view from their parador,
at left, has them struggling to keep up with blogging!  They persist, though, with champagne.

PLEASE BE gentle with us, enjoy our newly

Next post has tips on airport maneuvers.

gleaned tips on airport check-in and outsmarting the TSA lines.  Remember to explore, learn and live, and send feedback as we continue our revels (and blogs) from the Salvador Dali Museum, our parador here in the far north  of Barcelona, and  a Catalan medley of enticing restaurants, bistros, roadside pubs, intriguing antique shops and hardware stores, vegetable markets and, oh, yes, cathedrals and places of culture! (Still searching for a voltage transformer, having forgotten our combined three in U.S.) We're posting Wednesdays and Saturdays at: www.whereiscookie.com