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By Jackercrackie
September 20th 2008

La Llacuna

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

My Room

Once again, not Barcelona, Vilafranca. I had my first day of real work today, and I´m actually pretty tired!! My tasks for the day were to vaccum and mop, mow the grass, add a billion emails into his database, and port a BILLION bottles of that delicious cava from my potential room to the new cellar. I got almost all of it done, and I think I´ve done enough for today. This area where I´m staying is amazing! On his plot of land, Anthony has an orchard with apples, pears, almonds, cherries, green and purple figs, something that looks like a [View Full Entry]

By Lcollins
September 20th 2008

The most beautiful place we have been!

Europe » Spain » Basque Country » Guernica

We have been in Spain for 6 days now and it is time to post an update. We arrived in Barcenlona on Monday the 15th and rented our car and found our first B&B with relative ease. We stayed for 4 nights at El Moli, an agri tourisimo (a B&B on a working farm) in the tiny village of Siurana, north of Girona in the region of Catalonia. While there we enjoyed a day on the Cap de Creus which is a cape north of Roses that has many coves and villages and also a natural park. The road on the [View Full Entry]

By Sophia Wagner Serrano
September 19th 2008

Dad Visits!

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Dad in front of street of Picasso Museum

I was really lucky to have my dad come visit this week. His visit also coincides with la Merce, Barcelona's most famous festival. According to legend (and if I'm translating Catalan correctly), the virgin appeared to Jaume I, Sant Pere Nolasc, i Sant Ramon de Penyafort asking them to create an order of monks to save imprisoned Christians by Sarraïns. Then later in 1687, Barcelona had a terrible locust plague and was on the verge of overall collapse and decay when they put their hope and salvation to la Mare de Déu de la Mercè (the virgin). When the plague cleared [View Full Entry]

By Heidi in Japan
September 19th 2008

where is heidi living now?!?!

Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Seville

beautiful seville!

Gosh, has it really been a month since I last wrote on my blog?! Ok, a bit of an update is therefore in order! So, I had a great time at camp and really enjoyed spending 2 months with some great people in Spain… I got on particularly well with one of the other teachers, Phil, and we became a bit of an item. At the end of camp, we had a chat and basically decided to move to Seville, you know as you do… a bit drastic seeing as we’d only known each other for less than a month, but [View Full Entry]

By crm0136
September 19th 2008

Museo Reina Sofia

Europe » Spain » District of Madrid » Madrid

Museo Reina Sofia
So this is just outside the Museo de Reina Sofia

At the aquarium today, I was completely on my own. I had my own list I had to get done. I cleaned tanks and filters, did magnesium tests in the water (which I’ll actually have to finish on Monday), and “vacuumed” the tank where coral is growing. After work, I had to rush to Eureka because today we’re going to Museo de Arte Reina Sofia - a modern art museum (the 2nd largest museum in Madrid). The whole tour (over an hour) was all on one painter, Picasso. It was very interesting - and I love the way Angel talks! He’s [View Full Entry]

By Jackercrackie
September 19th 2008

Phase II

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

I´m not actually in Barcelona anymore, but none of the other cities were quite right. I just wanted everyone to rest assured that I have arrived at Phase II of my journey; the Work Exchange. I will retroactively post a couple more blogs on Marseille and Barcelona when I get the chance, but now I am in Vilafranca del Penedes, in the Catalonia region, at the base of the Penedes mountains, Western Spain´s wine country. I´ve already had a lot of it, thanks to my host, Anthony. And he´s signed me up for a food and wine pairing luncheon, and a [View Full Entry]

By crm0136
September 18th 2008

Churros con Chocolate!

Europe » Spain » District of Madrid » Madrid

Malaysian Bear
cutie

Today at work, I did a lot on my own. I also helped Alicia clean the octopus tank. It was pretty difficult, and that octopus is mischievous! He kept grabbing onto the skimmer or my hand - it was kinda creepy at first, but I got used to it. A girl I hadn’t met before brought us some yummy treats for our little breakfast break. Today, after work, I decided to stay at the zoo and just walk around - I hadn’t done that yet, so I packed a lunch and looked at all the animals. I brought my video camera, [View Full Entry]

By kaetlin
September 18th 2008

LoVe EsPaNa

Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Seville

me and antonette
took this pic cuz I felt cute!!

Today we had a short class because on Thursdays we take group trips to various places close to sevilla. Last time, I went to Italica. Today, I went to the Cathedral in Sevilla. So one of the teachers from the center takes a group to the cathedral, pays for all of us to get in and then gives us a very informed tour. It was so interesting. The teacher I went with was the teacher I first had in my easy class that I dropped so he knows me and likes me. Well, today I found out that I really like [View Full Entry]

By Crownbl
September 18th 2008

Day 21: Barcelona

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

Woke up this morning, not feeling my best, but after a very large bottle of water and breakfast I started to feel normal again. Daniel, Robert and I headed to the train station to make sure our reservation for the train to Madrid tomorrow was taken care of, then it was off to the beach! We got down to the water, and the guys jumped right in, I on the other hand didn't have a bathing suit, so I stuck my feet in. When I couldn't take it anymore I ran back to a store we had passed along the way, [View Full Entry]

By LJ
September 18th 2008

Hiking in Gredos

Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Sierra de Gredos Regional Park

View from the hotel window

We have now left the hustle and bustle of city life behind and we are in the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. It is in the mountains and we had to drive along some very wiggly roads to get here. Today we went on a big hike. We drove about 10km from the hotel (which is very alpine chalet like) to the start of the trail. We then walked to Laguna Grande. It took us about 3 hours. There was a hut there (Refugio Elola) which is where hikers can sleep. Very conveniently it had a restaurant so we had some [View Full Entry]

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