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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.

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By adfdso
October 8th 2007

Las Palmas Gran Canaria

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Sand Dunes
Sand dunes at maspalomas on a cloudy day.

How absolutely beautiful. Decided to spend my October break in the Canary Islands so I could visit Julie. It's just wonderful to my eyes, offering sun, sand, sea, city, mountains, and great food on just one of the islands. Definitely headed back there for Christmas to explore other islands. I stayed mostly in Las Palmas although we did drive around the coast one day and saw some breathtaking views of mountains and coastline. Went to Maspalomas to visit the sand dunes there. More to come later. [View Full Entry]

By Amy on her travels
July 9th 2007

Sea, Sand and Scuba gear.....

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Fuerteventura

RECOVERED

I'm back on my travels (well sort of!!)...i was for 10 days anyway, just got back from Fuerteventura (well i hadnt had a holiday this year had i!!)..I managed to pack more for 10days than i had done for a whole year...but i think i ended up wearing everything i took so I'm learning (actually i didnt wear my white dress or my pink top...hmmm.oh well ) Anyway yep, so off we went to Fuerteventura, forth time now so I'm a pro and we could meet up with all our friends ... it didnt start off to well though as [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
July 8th 2007

On top of the world

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

Wow! I just got back from one of the coolest (and hardest) things I've ever done, climbing to the top of the 3rd biggest volcano in the world! 6 of us got dropped off yesterday at about 1:30 at the base of the mountain, about 2000 meters. Our goal was to hike up to a refuge that was a few hundred meters from the top of Teide, stay the night, and wake up before dawn to hike up to see the sunrise over all of the islands. It was unknown, however, if the refuge would actually be open, and we were [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
July 5th 2007

Is there a 4th of July in England?

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

Yesterday was the third 4th of July in a row that I've managed to spend out of the country (although I'm not sure if the Virgin Islands really counts). It was really odd here because there's absolutely no other Americans here, so it was pretty easy to forget what day it was. My boss here did say he wanted to get cakes to celebrate getting rid of America. It's really interesting to see that despite a lot of inequalities that we still have in our country, the majority of us are generally much more tolerant and aware of other cultures than [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
July 1st 2007

Diving, Beaching, Hiking... A perfect weekend!

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

I'm just coming to the end of my second weekend in Tenerife. If anything, it was even more action-packed than last weekend. On Saturday, I went down to the port early to go diving. We went out on a zodiac with about eight people to do a drift dive a little ways off shore. The current was really strong, we had to pull ourselves down to the botton with the anchor line of the boat. The dive was cool though, we didn't see anything huge, but we saw some cool eels, our guide fed one a piece of fish, which it [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
June 26th 2007

So-called work

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

I´ve now been on Tenerife for a week and have gotten into the rhythm of the program. I can´t believe I only have 2 weeks left here, it´s going really fast! My favorite days are definitely when I´m out on the boats, the weather has gotten really nice, so I´m getting lots of sun! Yesterday I did 3 2-hour trips, we saw pilot whales on each trip. Actually, I haven´t had a trip yet where we haven´t seen them. I like people watching on the boats almost as much as I like the whale-watching. Most all the tourist here are British, [View Full Entry]

By Team G
June 25th 2007

Cozy On tour

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

Can Tenerife really cope?!?!?!?! Cozy wont!!!! One visit down to Veronicas, and he'll go bog eyed :) Fortunately all the Pringle Boyos will keep him entertained, FORE!!!!!! Hope you have good trip, is Natasha Kaplinski Covering your tour live for BBC!!! [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
June 21st 2007

English Lessons

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

Day 3 in Tenerife. There's about 13 volunteers here now, so we work on a rotation, about 8 people out on the boats and 5 at the house/research room. Sadly, today is not a boat day for me, so I'm at the computer researching sea turtles. Yesterday was the first day that everyone was here, so we did an all day training and information day to find out about what we would be doing and what the foundation does. A lot of the work we do when we're not on the boats will be compiling information about endangered species and work [View Full Entry]

By lostagain
June 19th 2007

Turn left at the zebra crossing...

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Tenerife

Â¡Hola from Tenerife! Today I worked my first day with the Atlantic Whale Foundation, I canÂ´t believe IÂ´m going to get to do this for 3 weeks! They send us along with the different whale watching boats for the day. We work in groups of 2 or 3 and record the what the animals are doing and take pictures of them. The rest of the time we basically just ride along, we can get out to swim with the group if we want, or just enjoy the sun. Rough life! At the end we go around and get people to sign [View Full Entry]

By Marcoelitaliano
May 14th 2007

Homage to Canarias

Europe » Spain » Canary Islands » Gran Canaria

Late Afternoon Empty Beach

Paul thoughtfully grazes his bishop placed on F2 in defence of his king. He picks it up from the chessboard in the apparent intention to capture my D4 pawn. It is a good move, my pawn is not protected while his bishop in the actual position could cause him checkmate in two moves. “Watch it out” suggest I casually. “I’m a bastard” think I, while Paul puts the bishop down and back he goes to his doubts -unjustified this time- about the possible ominous consequences of another rash move. Salva left the Meteor after the last, sour argument with the [View Full Entry]

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