sunset at the end of the world

whew ...whirlin around

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September 14th 2008
This has just been crazy. I feel like I have already been here for like a month. Siestas are incredible. Sometimes, after lunch, we just go to sleep for like four hours. It isn't even that we were all like oh we should try doing what the locals do. I think it is partly a result of the heat and the big midday meal, then also being in a new place and slammed with needing to learn spanish. Plus ... read more

Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Seville

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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