Spain Trip Part 2
I uploaded some more pics of Spain below. Included are pictures of Segovia (Alcazar and Roman aqueduct), Guggenheim Musem in Bilbao and Caceres.
We are now waiting for our US passports to return from being processed at the Indian Embassy. We received visas but the passports still need to be sent to us. We will then be allowed to leave Spain to travel: either a cruise around the Med, or to Morocco (Marrakesh and Fez).
Now we have an issue with getting inoculations for India. The UK medical center requires an initial appt. for each family member of 20 minutes to see what is required, then another booking is made to actually administer the shots. Since we are planning on only being in the UK for the first week of December, the only alternative is to try to find a travel center in Spain to administer them. Another issue is Malaria: the nurse practitioner said that Goa is the only place where there is malaria in southern India that time of year, so we'd best avoid it. The alternative is to take prophylactics for two weeks before, during, and four weeks after.
Am now busily trying to prepare an itinerary for us to India. Since it's busy season we need to book as many hotels, trains, flights as we can now. Friends of ours are coming from California this week just to go to El Bulli and we loaded them down with gifts for the boys, as well as a Lonely Planet Guide book for India -- which I hope to use extensively for planning the trip. There are also some excellent sites online that have allayed and exacerbated our fears about traveling with the kids to India. This page seems particularly thorough: Traveling with kids in India
As I mentioned in a previous post, we would like to see as many UNESCO World Heritage Sites as possible. Here is the list we are using for reference: World Heritage Sites