We departed for home after breakfast, and arrived home safe but very tired about 24 hours later. We flew Continental on the return flight, through Newark, NJ. We again had a delay, again due to equipment problems on the plane were supposed to board, and arrived in SF over an hour later than scheduled. Teri, who had a flight that was supposed to depart Newark 2 hours before ours, also had an equipment caused delay that resulted in her only arriving in SF 20 minutes ahead of us. Another disconcerting thing about Continental in Newark: we were in the terminal for about 5 hours, and it seemed that every few minutes Continental announced a change in departure gates for flights. I think we had to move to 3 different gates while we were there. It makes you wonder how reliable their planes are if they have so many equipment problems.
Here are my thoughts on the trip:
Hotels: I was attracted to the trip by the fact that we would be staying in Paradors. My expectations were exceeded by the very high quality of all of the hotels, and particularly by the very old and very nice Paradors in Leon and Santiago, as well as the modern 5 star hotels in the other cities.
Food: Since we have been on 2 prior tours with Tauck, we knew that they feed tour participants very well. The food on this tour was no exception, and it took a lot of will power to limit the amount of food one ate in order to be able to fit into our pants for the trip home.
Architecture: The architecture we saw in Barcelona was terrific, and I was overwhelmed by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. If you haven’t been to Bilbao in person, you should put it on your bucket list of places to see before you die.
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