Roof detail, Casa Battlo, Barcelona

December 28th 2006
For the better part of the past few weeks, while anyone with a shred of common sense was booking their rooms for the holidays, I’d been merrily traipsing through Morocco’s medinas and stuffing myself with tajine and generally operating under the time-tested assumption that things just always work out in the end. To a certain degree, that old adage is holding true: though the next week invo ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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Christopher Vourlias

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Chris is an avid traveler and hypercaffeinated writer, criss-crossing the globe and occasionally remembering to call home. Follow me at postcardjunky.wordpress.com. UPDATE, 22 January 2010: For those of you - both of you? - who have been following this blog off and on (mostly off) for the past few years, it's time to officially put it on a permanent hiatus. As much as I love these nutty little essays about my time on the road, they're just a bit too time-consuming to keep up with, given the demands of my freelance work. So for now, my dear TravelBlog, it's time to say adieu, though ... full info

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