Spain Road Trip 2026 – Prologue
Spain road trip; pictorial preview of Madrid, thanks to ChatGPT!; A Short History of Spain: Contiki 1982, Portugal/Spain 1989, 1990s Torrox and Nerja; three stages of travel; planning and plotting; learning Spanish; getting there; Hertz so good
So, this is our big trip for 2026 – a six-week-long Spain road trip! Last year, 2025, it was a cruise, Canada and the US: a Holland America cruise from Sydney to Vancouver, followed by 10 days in Vancouver and a road trip down the US west coast to California. (See here for my post on Lake Tahoe and work backwards to Vancouver, if you like.)
When I gave ChatGPT a photo of myself – hair newly waved – and asked it for a picture of me and my new iPhone in Madrid, this is what it came up with. Impressive, hey? I almost suggested we cancel our flights.
