Welcome to Luis´s Hotels and Bread Crumbs Blog.
If you are reading this.. its means you either a) googled hotels and bread crumbs and found yourself here or b) decided it is worth your 5 minutes to see what the hell your friend\ex\enemy\coworker is up to this summer. Either way.. happy reading and i hope you enjoy my rambling as this is my first blog ever.
If you are reading this.. its means you either a) googled hotels and bread crumbs and found yourself here or b) decided it is worth your 5 minutes to see what the hell your friend\ex\enemy\coworker is up to this summer. Either way.. happy reading and i hope you enjoy my rambling as this is my first blog ever.
First a quick intro to the name... for those who know my plans this summer.. hotels will be a big part of this blog as I will be visiting several properties all along the "Côte d'Azur" on my roadtrip from Barcelona to Rome. The Bread Crumbs is a reference to the concept of "finding your way home". Ironically - this summer trip for me in many ways is very much about "home" although that home not at all being four walls and a front door. It is about family and friends... and ensuring that no matter where the winds take me.. I remember the great people who have loved and supported me along the way. This roughly 5 week trip in Europe also marks the longest continuous time to be spent with my dad since I was ten years old... so a concept of "home with dad" is a big part of this adventure.
With that said.. let's get to today. I´m writing this first entry from the Iberia Business Lounge in the Barajas Airport in Madrid, domestic terminal. As no surpise for anyone who has traveled Iberia, my flight was 3 hours delayed out of JFK which meant a lost connection to Mallorca and another 3 hours of chillin at the airport before the next flight out. If you guessed that this blog is part of me burning these 3 hours in some type of productive yet not work\school related way - give yourself 2 points in the ´I know Luis´category.
Barring the delay, the flight across the pond was pleasant.. with a mad dash before taking off to respond to the many very nice ´gonna miss you´notes from some very special friends in NYC. I have to say the last day and a half in NYC was very tough.. and i do not mean the killer hangover from saturday night. It really did hit me that NYC has been really pretty spectacular over the years and the people i have met.. as well as the old friends that came along for the nyc ride... made this city like no other. Lucky for me... many many friends made my last weekend one for the books with friends from every chapter in my life showing up to send me off. In the seat next to me was Fran, a spanish chap coming back from a week in NYC with his girl. Unfortunately - Fran got upgraded to Business with his girlfriend stuck in Coach. He mentioned it happens all the time which he managed by having his girlfriend switch with him in the middle of the night.... pretty funny. As we got to talking, I decided to pick his brain regarding the spanish healthcare system. With all the buzz of Universal Healthcare currently running through the US media... I wanted to get educated on what other countries are doing and how its really working from people "on the ground." Long story short - Fran had nothing but good things to say about the Spanish "socialized medicine" program. He said yes - there is waiting list for non-essential treatments but that anthing urgent is treated immediately and the entire program is funded by employer contributions. I was interested at how this program was first developed as I see the long fight against private interests in the US coming and Fran explained the social medicine program is one of the only remnants of the Franco regime. Interesting to say the least.
damn... gonna miss my flight.. to be continued.
Barring the delay, the flight across the pond was pleasant.. with a mad dash before taking off to respond to the many very nice ´gonna miss you´notes from some very special friends in NYC. I have to say the last day and a half in NYC was very tough.. and i do not mean the killer hangover from saturday night. It really did hit me that NYC has been really pretty spectacular over the years and the people i have met.. as well as the old friends that came along for the nyc ride... made this city like no other. Lucky for me... many many friends made my last weekend one for the books with friends from every chapter in my life showing up to send me off. In the seat next to me was Fran, a spanish chap coming back from a week in NYC with his girl. Unfortunately - Fran got upgraded to Business with his girlfriend stuck in Coach. He mentioned it happens all the time which he managed by having his girlfriend switch with him in the middle of the night.... pretty funny. As we got to talking, I decided to pick his brain regarding the spanish healthcare system. With all the buzz of Universal Healthcare currently running through the US media... I wanted to get educated on what other countries are doing and how its really working from people "on the ground." Long story short - Fran had nothing but good things to say about the Spanish "socialized medicine" program. He said yes - there is waiting list for non-essential treatments but that anthing urgent is treated immediately and the entire program is funded by employer contributions. I was interested at how this program was first developed as I see the long fight against private interests in the US coming and Fran explained the social medicine program is one of the only remnants of the Franco regime. Interesting to say the least.
damn... gonna miss my flight.. to be continued.
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