Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1084

This weekend I spent some of the best days I have had in Spain in the company of Americans. few foreigners and I were welcomed into their Thanksgiving celebrations, far from the U.S. and our families, we made our own international Thanksgiving. And I would just like to take this opportunity to apologise for all the times I have generalised about American stupidity, or ignorance or any other Stereotype that the whole world enjoys loading onto the U.S.A. Apart from a certain girl from North Dakota who insisted on the being the exception that proved the rule, all the Americans I met this weekend were sweethearts. Warm, hospitable, funny, gracious, intelligent and open-minded, all of them able to be objective on their rather interesting reputation. Now, Im not saying that I agree with alot of U.S. ... read more

Bec and I popped over the Valencia for the weekend! Was great to get there - Katie and I had decided to skip it last time. So Katie here you go!!! We pretty much chilled out, enjoyed the sun and the wine! 1.50 EURO wines so we had a few! We are off to Brussels this weekend coming so more to come!! xo... read more

A funny thing happened on the way to Ronda...we were sitting on the comfortable "fast train" from Seville to our next cycling point in the hill town of Ronda, and Kate idley pulled out the LP guide and started paging through the section on Granada. "Oh, too bad we're not going to see Granada and the famous Alhambra castle. It sounds beautiful, right at the base of the Sierra Nevada." A few minues of discussion ensued, and so rather than transferring to the Granada-Ronda train, we instead transferred to the Ronda-Granada train going the opposite direction, and that's how we ended up spending a couple of days in in the beautiful city of Granada. And we did indeed see the Alhambra Palace, made famous (apparently - I didn't focus much on literature...) by Washington Irving's "Tales ... read more

Las despedidas como todas no son fáciles y sobre todo cuando son para tanto tiempo. Por eso nos gustó mucho despedirnos con vosotr@s comiendo, bebiendo y riendo que es lo que más nos gusta. Del abuelo de Vanesa y su familia nos despedimos en una comilona en su pueblo Piedraceda en Pola de Lena. Sencillamente estuvo genial. Para despedirnos de padres, madres, hermanos y hermanas, como no, otra comilona en El Bodegón. Mirar que familia tan hermosa. Ahí queda esa foto para la posteridad. Finalmente quedaba toda la infantería y que mejor que con la última comilona y una buena fiesta. Un buen cordero a la estaca en Tiñana, un autobus y un destino ;) Lo cierto es que fuimos unos desastres y no tenemos muchas fotos, aunque os colgamos algunas y el video del cordero ... read more

Last weekend I spent some quality time with nature at a mountain pass called ¨La boca del asno¨ or ¨The Ass´s Mouth¨. Paula´s parents, Mamen and Juan Carlos, their best friend Maribel, and myself took a bus with a mycologist (mushroom specialist) to the Sierra north of Madrid. When we arrived, we were instructed to pick all the mushrooms we could find, meet up with the specialist and the other 40 people on the trip, and he would classify all that we had collected and organize them in groups of edible and toxic species. We would then have a delicious meal of...you guessed it! MUSHROOMS! (We all crossed our fingers that he REALLY knew what he was doing.) This, at least, was what was supposed to happen. Unfortunately, when we arrived, I had a little problem. ... read more