Blogs from Spain, Europe

Well I got here,……Here being Plasencia. Am currently sitting on the terrazza of the hotel and waiting for the restaurant to open. Before 21.00 hours forget it. Good that I got a good lunch. Will have to change my routine a bit ! The weather is very pleasant and not a cloud in the sky and still about 25 degrees if not more. The hotel is a little bit outside Plasencia so I doubt if I shall go out tonight after a good meal and a beer or two. The day started out with a quick blast up the back roads and leaving the motorway to my right. This road was featured on " Good Biking Roads " website and it was full of bikers in both directions. The road starts at San juan del puerto ... read more

You know how in the US when you are walking towards someone and you’re eventually going to walk into eachother, so you both go right? Yeah…. That doesn’t happen here, they just run into you. Cars do not stop, and neither do the people. I got literally no sleep last night, our last night in madrid, because our hotel faced the street and everyone was running through the streets screaming and yelling and partying. The other thing that is way weird to me at this point is they literally kiss everyone. When our tour guides picked us up they gave us all los besos, which is basically rubbing your cheeks together, and making an extremely obnoxious kissing smooch sound in their ear and then doing the same on the other side. It’s different from the French ... read more

With the West coast of France showing us her ugly side in the way of rain, wind and cold temperatures, this week we have continued to push south towards Spain in the pursuit of warmer weather. We picked up a baguette as we left the town of Nantes. I’ve never noticed on my previous visits to France just how many people carry around baguettes, every town and city we drove through there just seemed to be people everywhere with them- under their arms, in their backpacks, where ever they can find room. The small seaport town of La Rochelle was to be our first stop on the west coast and we had hoped that the rain would let up in order for us to explore the docks and old city wall. However, with our jeans all ... read more

Hello world ! Present location is on board the las Palmas - Huelva ferry about one hour out of Las Palmas. The Wifi here on board seems to have a problem so it will be a while before this goes live. This morning was an early start with my alarm going off at 05.30 , not really my time of the morning ! After a quick shower I went down to the always amazing breakfast in the Santa Catalina. This morning I had the whole room to myself and enjoyed a nice slow start to the day. I am still not really on holiday because I tend to think in time bites. Fifteen minutes to eat,ten to pack and ten to get to harbor , etc. I look forward to the feeling of not being tied ... read more

We had had a trial run with our new hobby caravanning,, so now as experts we looked forward to a holiday without hitches? However, when we joined the ferry queue at Portsmouth, we realised it may not be so simple, as Michelle noticed that our ferry had been booked for the following week. Terry advised her to start crying as this might persuade the man in the kiosk to look for a place for us. However, it was not necessary and the very nice man said we were lucky as he found the only caravan place left.The boat and our cabin were better than we expected and Terry soon realised that, after Michelle, he was the youngest on board. Caravans were in abundance and the chat seemed to revolve round caravans, motor homes and how much ... read more

Hola! I am finally in Madrid! Today has consisted of a 4 hour flight from denver to philly, then an 8 hour flight from philly to madrid, followed by sitting on the floor of the airport with my new companions for almost 3 hours until we were finally picked up by ISA staff and boarded onto a bus to the hotel. We are staying at Hotel NH Nacional and it's extremely nice but the rooms are really strange... Our room has two twin beds, made seperately but then pushed together to look like one bed. It also took me 10 minutes to figure out how to work the light switch, and after becoming extremely frustrated decided to go ask. This was not a blonde moment, for those of you judging me right now, and nearly everyone ... read more

Late at night and ready for bed.Arrived from Fuerteventura on the Armas ferry at about 21.45 and headed for the hotel Santa Catlina. Threw my bags in the room and went out to eat. Got back at 00.30 and will head to bed as the ferry leaves for Huelva in the morning at 08.00!!... read more

Hola mis amigos! :) Well, Jana’s wedding marked my last overnight trip until my parents arrive, as of the 19th of May I only have one month left here in Cadiz and two months left until I arrive back in the United States. It’s been nearly a year of crazy adventures, new experiences, and definitely testing my limits. I really thought that after Jana’s wedding the excitement would die down that things would be rather calm here in Spain with just papers and tests left as my “exciting” things to do, but Giorgio (my Sicilian geology professor) and his “field trip” added themselves to my long list of things that did not turn out how I expected. The only way to describe it is what I said at our last stop of the day, “Esta es ... read more