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.
July 21st 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao Hello Everyone!
My last week in Spain was a whirlwind vacation through the Basque Country to see a little of Bilbao and to run with the bulls in Pamplona. I left Malaga on Tuesday afternoon (7/8) ... 14 photos[full story]
July 14th 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao After the nice morning on the beach in San Sebastian and enjoying some solitude there, I went back to the hostel and woke up my friends. We headed out shortly after that toward Bilbao, which was on o ... 3 photos[full story]
March 23rd 2008Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao One of the Spanish teachers on the boat, Rocio, is from Spain and gave us the lowdown on what to do in Bilbao. She got all of us pretty excited for what Bilbao had to offer, being a pretty unique pla ... 12 photos[full story]
June 18th 2004Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Bilbao El autobus del grupo salía para Bilbao en la mañana, para conocer el Museo Guggenheim, el edificio contemporáneo más famoso de España, y el motivo por el cual Bilbao, una ciudad industrial, se ha pues ... 4 photos[full story]
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]
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]
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