El Escorial

Pizza and Sangria on Valentine's day :)

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February 16th 2009
I was hanging out in my plain little yellow room about a week ago. I was trying to clean up a little bit (Somehow I made a mess of my room in one day) when my cell phone rang. I looked at it and knew that it was my old host mom calling even though it was just a phone number appearing on the caller ID. She was calling to tell me that I didn’t have to worry about anything and that if I ever needed ... read more

Europe » Spain » Castile-La Mancha » Toledo

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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