Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1089

Hello everyone, In response to everyone's e-mails regarding my recent excusion to the city of Toledo, I have decided that it will perhaps be easier and more convenient for me just to write about it on here, so that everyone may read and it will prevent me from having to monotonously type the same story multiple times :-). On Sunday, I awoke around 8:00 am and made for the metro station, where I took the underground about 9 stops south to Estacion Sur de Autobuses (South Bus Station), where the majority of intercity, national, and even international busses depart from. After purchasing my tickets, my bus departed almost immediately, and I arrived in Toledo about an hour later. I found Toledo to be a very intriguing little city. It, like Avila and Segovia, is very ancient ... read more

Hola from Spain! Hope all is well back at home. Here is our latest update! After leaving Italy we travelled very quickly through France and arrived on the South coast of Spain. Stopped over in Loret de Mar on the Costa Brava (like Blackpool) and then tried to stopover in Benidorm (James wanted some fish and chips!) unbelievably ALL the campsites were FULL! Full of Brits and Germans on longstays, eventually we found a place in between Benidorm and Alicante (we discovered why the sites fill up most offer 60% plus discounts of stays over 28 days.) We then had a very long and winding drive through the Sierra Nevada to the Alpujarra mountains were we have stayed in an old mill house for the last 8 days. A beautiful place in a lovely area which ... read more

I was in Madrid for a 3S Project Consortium Meeting. I have been managing this project as well due to the normal project manager on maternity. I saw a Picasso exhibition that was fantastic. I am not an art guy, but it was really cool to see an actual Picasso. "Guernica" (see pic) was huge, took up most of the wall. Now I can understand why some people go to these things, you could really look at it and keep seeing different things. The entire exhibition was really interesting.... read more

Spain.... The entire country felt a little like a stopover...we hadn't researched Spain much, so we basically arrived without a plan at all. Madrid was made special by Duilio, a lighting designer that we met for the first time there. We had a great time touring the town in the late evening with him, sampling Tapas and drinking just a little beer. We hopped a train to Barcelona, drawn there by many recommendations from travelers everywhere. We loved the place. There is a very positive energy in the city, with lively streets at all times of the day and none of the anonymous feeling that you get in a large city center. We happened to be there for the Barcelona boat show, which was a great excuse to wander around and check out all kinds of ... read more

What a warm atmosphere! What a beautiful city! Ok, I'm not here to talk about cities. My thing of the moment is open landscapes, fields, mountains, little villages... But how can I resist the charms of Valencia? Its surprisingly glamorous old town and its fabulous modern complexes! I fell in love with this place. Almost at first sight. It took me a little while to tune in, to let the images sink my pupils. The huge squares. The ancient buildings so well looked after. Then I felt the warmth, the jolly pace people seem to move at - not too slowly though absolutely not in a hurry either. An amazing old market with juicy mediterranean and African fruit, reasonably priced. A urban haven! With beaches where I spent a whole afternoon sunbathing: in the middle of ... read more