Spider Statue and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

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]

Blog: The Spains - Basque Country, Galicia, and well... Spain
Date: July 11th 2006

Irun - where weirdly dressed men shoot pigeons in the street...

Our arrival in Spain was about as disconcerting and unsalubrious as possible. Imagine if you will the well oiled machine that is the French rail network(hindsight is a marvellous thing), where facilities stretch as far as signs outlining the composition of carriages for each train. Imagine our increasing confidence in ... read more

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