Travelling: stuff you like to experience

[shootingstar]

My dearie spent time cycling and seeing Spain for...over 3 wks. recently. He was cycling and took 1-2 short train trips. He was in Madrid and eventually made his way over to Seville where he was busy with meeting people, presenting at the Velo-city conference. Then he took side trip to Valencia for 1 day before going to Madrid and return to Canada.

The whole time he was there he did not visit any museum nor historic site. He did enjoy the architecture --meaning taking photos, looking but mostly I suspect he didn't know the significance of what he was seeing...which happens to many of us travelling overseas.

He enjoyed the Spanish tapas, paellas that he had. Stumbled into a Spanish wine festival at a place.

I'm the opposite --I want to see and go inside some of the key historic, architectural or artistic collections. So yea, I have to get off the bike.... For me, just to cycle through a foreign country, especially non-English speaking, I would feel I was wasting abit of the trip, the opportunity.

I would like to eat the local food ...which was why Copenhagen, Denmark was a disappointment to us, food-wise.