Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1194

Today is Tuesday, April 10!!! I cannot believe how fast time has suddenly slipped by me! It's mid-April already! How did that happen? Anyway, I'm still trying to catch-up on last week, but don't worry, you're not missing anything happening in the present time! Tomorrow I'll write about my plans for this weekend....They're exciting! So check back! lol But, for now, back to last Thursday... Thursday, April 5, 2007 On Thursday I met Mom, Dad, and Travis on the street with the funky lamps, Gran Via. We had plans to go to the beach! So, we switched buses and headed to the bus station to see what we could find. By 11:00 we were on our way to Almunecar, a beach on the coast of Granada. Mom had finally remembered to bring the video camera, ... read more

So, finally I'm almost caught up! On Saturday I didn't do too much...typed up in Microsoft Word the TravelBlogs that I posted through Wednesday...They're easy to just copy and paste! lol However, I knew that there was only one procession in the city on Saturday and is was supposed to go right down the road where my friend's apartment is, so I called Mett and asked him if Laura and I could come watch the procession, hang out, and use his internet! The procession came down the hill from the Alhambra....which as my family knows, is quite a workout. So we knew it'd be cool. He said we could, so we went and watched the procession fromt the small deck outside his window. It was a great spot to watch it from! We then went ... read more

Arrived at Madrid Barajas Airport, one of the bigger airports we have flown into on Tuesday afternoon. Terminals T4 & T4S , which are celebrating their first anniversary, are very impressive! Older terminals, T1, T2 and T3 are drab. Took the metro to our hotel, Hotel Room Mate Mario, a trendy Spanish hotel chain with reasonable room rates for Madrid, centrally located near Plaza de Oriente , Teatro Real and Palacio Real. The Madrid metro is cheap and efficient; however, carrying luggage up and down stairs is a definite negative! We ended the day by hitting our favorite tapas bar at Plaza Santa Ana for great tapas and wine, called the Vinotecha! Our favorite? Brie triangles, they are delicious! Our first full day of sightseeing in Madrid started early, when after having breakfast at our hotel, ... read more

Tarifa to TangiersThe Conley Family We are sitting on the ferry boat to Tangiers, Morocco, waiting to leave from Tarifa, Spain. We hope to get to Fez, because Tangiers is supposed to be like Tijuana times 10. We were not able to secure a guide in Spain, however, and the information we have is that the hotels in Fez are all booked, so we may be back in Tarifa (the Hawaii of Spain) this evening. Friday night we had a fabulous time with Dave Puente and his wife Maria; we met them and their two young daughters, Elena and Carmen, for drinks near Plaza Nueva, and then watched one of the processions coming out off the Iglesia San Geronimo. After the procession, they invited us back to their apartment for Tapas. The boys were able to ... read more

Hellloooooo!! Having safely made the airport at 4.45am I made my way through security etc, boarded my plane, fastened my seatbelt....only to be told that the plane needed a spare part and we all had to disembark!! After hanging around at Heathrow for 4hrs finally we had a new plane and were off.....Unfortunately I missed the connection on to Quito, (there were 150 people going for connections) and since there´s only one flight a day, they have kindly put us up in a swanky-ish hotel (well its swanky to me seeing as i had a tv n a double bed n an en-suite....im not even expecting hot water in some places) so its actually worked rather well for me!! Met some folks who were also on the plane, n spent the night chatting away-drinking away in ... read more