NYU's dime--which is to say my parents dime, translated through innumerable internal NYU accounts--took a bunch of us to one of Spain's least famed autonomías: Extremadura. Though its marginal status and name are somewhat justified (the land to interesting stuff ratio does not favor interesting stuff), the wilderness held certain treasures. Notable features included, Mérida, a fairly well preserved Roman city, and Cáceres, a well preserved contemporary city. Further, there were a range of reconquista era castles and lush, agricultural vallies to be seen. Most interesting among the sites [View Full Entry]

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Ages ago I went with my anthropology class to the small farming village in Castilla y León, where my professor had conducted field research. [View Full Entry]

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Last Thursday my comrades and I took the train to Lisbon, Portugal’s premiere city by the sea, capital, and San Francisco knock off—in the non-chronological sense, that is. We arrived early on Friday, and wandered groggily, taking stock of the immediate neighborhood surrounding or Residéncia. From our admittedly superficial investigations, it seems that that the city offers, in no particular order: 1) Public spaces wavering between extreme friendliness and unfriendliness to pedestrians—on one hand there are ample and monumental plazas and parks scattered about, as well as [View Full Entry]

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I went to Seville with a few nice folks. While I have no pictures of my own (camera battery crisis), rest assured: no event goes unrecorded. Cassie provides a lovely treatment of our activities [View Full Entry]

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Tricked out with a regimen of malaria medication, I arrived in the Andean country with a small contingent NYUers to gawk at ruins and butcher the Spanish language. [View Full Entry]

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