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.
June 17th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges So today is going to get a short entry because it was mostly a travel day. We did, however, do some important stuff today, #1 being finally having a real swim in the Mediterranean!
We started the ... 17 photos[full story]
April 11th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges A few weeks ago (ya, I know I am doing this entry a little late), I went on a daytrip with my program to Penedes, Sitges, and Sant Piere. About 20 of us hopped on a greyhound at 8 am and headed to our ... 43 photos[full story]
March 29th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges I took a daytrip to Penedes, Sitges, and Sant Piere. Penedes is only a forty minute drive from the Barcelona city center. Here we took a tour of the Codorniu cava vineyard, where we learned how cava w ... 38 photos[full story]
February 15th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged, I have been a busy, busy traveler!
On February 1st my friends on my program and I took the train down to Sitges for Carnaval, which is the biggest c ... [full story]
February 11th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges I have no photos to do this experience justice. Being such a crazy night, I didnt bring my camera for the high chance of it getting pick-pocketed. However I was able to get a few before the night begu ... [full story]
February 11th 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges So last Tuesday, February 5th was the last night of a huge festival in Spain called Carnival. Barcelona doesn’t really celebrate it, so all of our teachers said that we should go to Sitges, a s ... [full story]
February 2nd 2008Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Sitges On a whim we decided to take a train from Barcelona to a small beach town about 25 minutes away by train (or an hour if you get off on the wrong stop like we did on the way back) called Sitges. It is ... 11 photos[full story]
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