¡Saludos a todos! In Spain, Easter is celebrated for an entire week, beginning with Palm Sunday and ending with Easter Sunday, known as Semana Santa, or Holy Week. In Castilla y León this year school kids and teachers had off Thursday and Friday of Semana Santa and the whole entire following week (so from Thursday, April 1st through Sunday, April 11th.) Mom and Dad came to visit me in Spain during this time and we traveled around Andalucía! It was so good to see them after being in Spain for 7 months and not seeing anyone in my family since last September. I met my parents in Madrid on Thursday morning, April 1st, at the airport and we took a high speed train to Cádiz, arriving around 4:30 pm. After checking into our hotel in the
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