Background: Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating civil war (1936-39). In the second half of the 20th century, Spain has played a catch-up role in the western international community; it joined the EU in 1986. Continuing challenges include Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorism and further reductions in unemployment.
May 25th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao Today's adventure started on a public bus to Bilbao from the campground, about one hour.
It is a lot less stress not to be driving an RV into the narrow streets of a busy city.
After a s ... 9 photos[full story]
May 24th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao We continued our walk around St. Jean Pied de Port in in the AM and it was busy with pilgrims moving out, on their journey. The weather is beginning to warm up some, just a bit foggy in the valle ... 6 photos[full story]
February 11th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country
Between the train changes, a suspicious-looking character hanging around outside our compartment all night and a loud character down the hall who figured himself a train conductor constantly yelli ... 37 photos[full story]
April 25th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao Here we are, on the other side of the Iberian Peninsula. It's very close to the sea, the river is tidal and so I might as well claim to be in the vicinity of the Bay Of Biscay. Westside...
Hang on, i ... 16 photos[full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao I promised you all the delicious details of my sordid Spanish sojourn (never let it be said I’m an English major who can’t alliterate), so without further ado, vamos!
Before I could lea ... [full story]
July 8th 2007Europe » Spain » Basque Country » San Sebastián James, Leah and I had been waiting for ages to escape the Spanish heat by having a swim on the north coast at San Sebastian, but as luck would have it, it was the one overcast day!
We only had a f ... 8 photos[full story]
March 2nd 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » San Sebastián Last weekend we went on a trip to the Basque Country. The weather was fabulous and we got to see both the countryside and the city. I would recommend visiting Northern Spain to anyone who makes it o ... 30 photos[full story]
February 23rd 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » San Sebastián The trip to San Sebastian didn’t start off ideally. The safe containing the money for the trip was stolen from the international student office, so we were asked to pay for our entry into the aq ... 9 photos[full story]
February 19th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Guernica Aupa everyone! I hope this blog finds you all well :)
It´s been a very interesting week as far as getting to know the politics of Basque country, as well as getting to know the history of the region, ... 15 photos[full story]
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