El Parque de Retiro

Madrid.

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March 10th 2008
Ooh what a weekend! It was so much fun! Friday morning we had a flight to Madrid at 12:30pm out of Sevilla. It was me, Beth, Cody, Colleen, Ryan and Michael. The flight was about an hour and when we got to Madrid our first mission was to find a hostal (since we had been looking online all week for one and we had no luck). Soooo... the excitement of the trip began when we got on the metro from the ... 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