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Europe » Spain » Castile & León » Segovia July 2nd 2008

Quick update July 1st, 2008. Wow can you believe it, it’s already July 1st, One more month to go, I’m enjoying things here but when the time comes I will be ready to go home. I miss everyone terribly but by staying busy it helps. Today we spent a very long time planning the trip to Barcelona, which is 9 hours away on a bus. We have finally got it all set though, we leave Thursday night and will sleep on the bus and will wake up and be in Barcelona. I’m looking forward to it except the bus part the train was really expensive. I just hope we made the right choice to go there instead of going to Valencia. The group is splitting up again which works out fine. My roommate is cramming both ... read more

Europe » Spain » Galicia » Cape Finisterre July 1st 2008

We pulled into a camping site in Gijon on June 18th. Our camp site overlooked the sea and that evening we had sloppy joe's on the bbq and watched a new swell roll in. We stayed here for two nights just bummin around and taking day trips to nearby towns. We found this old abandoned pier and jumped off of it into the ocean. On the second evening I surfed a point break on the edge of the town beach. No one else out, just me and the sea monsters. From Gijon, we drove to La Coruna, which is one of the largest port cities of Spain. On the way, we found another great surf break off the side of the highway. We hung out at this beach for the afternoon, swimming, surfing and snorkelling. In ... read more
Secret Surf Spot
Me and the Spanish Donkey
Dan and his new girlfriend

Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Granada July 1st 2008

After Morocco I thought it would be best to start off my travels in Europe with the last stronghold of the Muslims in Spain. I took a boat from Tangier in the evening and took a night bus from Algaciras to Granada. The boat was interesting and I chatted with some Moroccan women on the way over. I saw a couple other foreigners, but practically everybody on the boat was Moroccan. After customs I found the bus for Granada, which was also completely full of Morccans. The bus got to Granada a bit earlier than I had expected - it was about 4am Sunday morning and I had no idea where to go to wait until it got light. Fortunately one of the other two women who got off the bus in Granada was very nice ... read more
Alhambra
Reflecting Pools
Moroccan Tiles

Europe » Spain » District of Madrid » Madrid July 1st 2008

Well, one short half-day after getting to Madrid, our classes started. I'm taking three classes from three Spanish Law Professors. They all have really impressive credentials - 2 are partners at global lawfirms (who teach on the side for a different prospective) and the other one cancelled the first class (clearly a slacker). Actually, he was doing something in D.C. because he is an advisor to the government and couldn't get back in time for the first class. Interestingly, the professors were very nice and apologized for their poor English skills. I think that this is rather ironic - they were speaking perfect English, but even as partners at global lawfirms they were apologizing to law students. I just can't really see that happening at home. But I think it's a reflection of the Spanish culture ... read more
Outside my Room
My Room
My Room

Europe » Spain » Basque Country » San Sebastián July 1st 2008

Arrived in Madrid after a delayed flight. We surprised ourselves and saved 30 euro by getting ourselves from the airport to the hostel. It was so hot when we arrived and soon found ourselves getting into the Spanish siesta routine. We stayed in a busabout hostel in the red light district of Gran Via (it was not bad at all). On our first day we navigated with our map around the city and looked like real tourists. We found the Royal Palace (Palacio Real) what a beautiful place, the rooms where amazing and all had exquisit touches, if only I was a princess. Outside the place is the Cathedral de nuetra senora de la almudena which was nice on the inside and shabby on the outside. We then walked to the Plaza Mayor the oldest quater ... read more
Plaza Mayor (Madrid)
Me with Sangria (Madrid)
Man playing music to us

Europe » Spain July 1st 2008

So found a computer and decided to update everyone... We have just done are first day - across the pryannes and the spanish border and are staying in a very nice refuge in roncavilles. today was a long 8 hour day - we did get up late so opnlt started walking at 8ish but going uphill all the way to a peak of 1400ft. We are still 900ft up at the moment and our refuge is in the clowds! The scenery was amazing today but after 8 hours of walking we are just about to have a set menu for 9 euroes then head off to bed... tomorrow we plan to slightly less - around 20km and shall see how it goes...... read more

Europe » Spain » Balearic Islands » Ibiza July 1st 2008

I am quickly learning that life likes to be the one in control and when you surrender to that, things get very interesting. so my three month life experience idea at falcon blanco came to a crashing end. I decided that I really want to be in a community where food consciousness was an integral component. Where i could learn to garden and work in a field, pick crops, and then eat a big salad all in one day. The unbelievable amounts of saved 'waste' at the place also were just piling up, being saved for later use. Unfortunately there seemed to be little 'processing' or reflection of what was being brought onto the property, which, we all know, I like to process, reflect, and talk about what is going on. So, I quickly packed my ... read more
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Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona July 1st 2008

A good portion of Sunday afternoon was spent with the policia reporting the theft of my wallet. What an experience! The intake officer was baffled by my birthplace and that I didn't live there. He said what is a Ft. Wayne? And he told me to leave out Indiana because it could confuse the officer. He kept using the amount of $400 and no, I didn't have that amount in my wallet, nor was it worth that! All together I had about $150 worth of Euro and US dollars. Then when we came back to the hotel the desk person told us that the police only did something about thefts of $400 or more, otherwise, its just shoplifting. I do wonder if the gypsies use the stolen money to buy gelatto for their children and take ... read more
Montserrat Goat Cheese
Temple de al Sagrada Familia

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona July 1st 2008

Sorry that we have not posted in a few days...the truth is we have been having too much fun!!!! However, it was not so much fun trying to get here...we had quite the adventure. Last Saturday morning we sadly checked out of our bed and breakfast and began our three and a half hour drive to Narbonne, France so we could catch a train to Barcelona. Well we did a great job of following the directions and navigating the french auto route (highway) but the drive took almost an hour longer than the directions stated....ahhh.....unfortunately we missed our train. Now normally this would not have been a big deal but there was not another train for 4 hours so we had to sit in the station, which stunk pretty bad, and just drink a lot beer ... read more

Europe » Spain » Aragon » Zaragoza July 1st 2008

hey all, right now im still in sunny scotland but thought that since im gonna be living it up in zaragoza pretty soon i shoud get some form of communication sorted (incase by some dreadful feat he flat , which i havent found yet, has no internet). in just under 2 months i will be leaving **lovely** greenock for zaragoza...weyhey .... where ill be studying spanish and french in the facultad de filosofia y letras (our arts and social science faculties) well once i find out definite arrangements il post them on here so that you can all keep in touch and stuff besos fiona xx... read more




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