Jason and RuthAnn Travel

02/13/2025

98 days to Paris!!!!

11/08/2024

True Love. When your husband stands in line for 30 minutes at the Portugal Airport McDonalds to buy you a Coke

11/07/2024

My new friend in Gibraltar.

11/07/2024

Today we visited St Michaels Cave in Gibraltar. Over the years I’ve seen many cathedrals. This one was made by the Hands of God. And yes I did sing the Doxology

St. Michael's Cave or Old St. Michael's Cave is the name given to a network of limestone caves located within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at a height of over 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. According to Alonso Hernández del Portillo, the first historian of Gibraltar, its name is derived from a similar grotto in Monte Gargano near the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo in Apulia, Italy, where the archangel Michael is said to have appeared.[1]

11/06/2024

11/05/2024

Visited Granada, Spain today at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Got to visit the Cathedral of Granada
Worship

More than a historical monument, this cathedral is “the house of God” and the dwelling place of men
The monument
Seat of the Archdiocese of Granada, it is one of the crowning works of the Spanish Renaissance.

11/04/2024

Just booked Sydney to Singapore

11/03/2024

Okay, I’ve been schooled . I’ve talked so
Many times in negative ways about the glam and glitter of cathedrals. Wondering how can so much money be spent on these opulent buildings. But I just finished a book by Ken Follett called Notre Dame: A Short History of the meaning of Cathedrals. Here is line from the book. “A journalist asked me: “Don’t you hate all the tourists in their shorts with their cameras?” No. Cathedrals have always been full of tourists. In the Middle Ages they were not called tourists, they were pilgrims, but they traveled for many of the same reasons: to see the world and its marvels, to broaden their minds, to educate themselves, and perhaps to come in touch with something miraculous, otherworldly, eternal.” That is what I experienced yesterday

11/03/2024

Yesterday we visited Sagrada Familia. Many people had told me this was a “ must see”. They were right. This Cathedral was the most awe inspiring thing I have even seen. Jason and I were blessed to be able to visit

11/02/2024

Our new friends in Barcelona

11/02/2024

Cathedral of Barcelona and some early sketching of Picasso