Week 4

Trip to France/Spain

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September 18th 2013
WEEK 4 On the road to Spain this week. Not long after we'd left Argeles, we joined a queue of traffic which crawled along for nearly two hours. As we crossed the spanish border we drove through a village where some sort of gathering had taken place and the road had obviously been closed. All the way along our route we came across groups of people draped in red and yellow flags in celebratio ... read more

Europe » Spain » Catalonia » Barcelona

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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