Blogs from Spain, Europe - page 1366

G'day Friends and Family This blog is a brief overview of our 6 days in Spain, including the infamous La Tomatina (tomato throwing festival) in the small town of Bunol (pronounced Bunyol). We hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as we did producing them! Monday 29/08/05 We arrived in Madrid airport (it reminded me of the old Coolangatta airport - very 'no frills') and picked up our hire car - the diesel Seat Ibiza! Needless to say, it wasn't over-powered. But that was a good thing considering we were driving on the wrong side of the road from the wrong side of the car. Needless to say, confidence was low! The first objective was to get to our accomodation in the city where we were meeting up with our travel buddies Jen and ... read more

I¨ Im sitting in a cyber cafe right now in....Madrid! I made it safely yesterday with only a few minor glitches. I left from Charlotte at 5:20 on the 29th and flew from there to Newark, NJ. It was really cool flying into that airport because I could see the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty from there. I then took a flight to Lisbon, Portugal. The seat that was assigned to me was a window seat except, ironically, there was no window there at all because it was the exit row. So I quickly grabbed one of the middle seats (you know the ones with 4 seats across and was able to sleep for about 3.5 hours on the plane. I landed in Portugal around 8:30, or 2:30 a.m. in my body´s time. ... read more

Tuesday August 30, 2005 After a 4:45 am wake up in the hostel David and I tried to call a taxi. Lo and behold our phone card from the front desk last night did not work any longer, so we had to wake up the shift manager who sleeps in the lounge when they are closed. He was not particularly happy about it either. Fortunately he called a cab for us, and when it arrived we negotiated a very fair price to get David to the Train station and me to the airport. David and I parted ways and I took hold of the hostel manager’s advice at the airport. Ryanair is so picky about their 33lbs. checked luggage limit and charge you outrageously for every kilo overweight. The manager, in his early twenties, said “find ... read more

Hola! Before I being writing I just want to say thank you to all the people who have helped me get here. People who were kind enough to write reccommendation letters for me: Alejandro Maya, Ellen McWhorter, & Joan Chan- Gracias! And, of course- my mom- Kathy for her unconditional love-- and funding. So, for those of you who don´t know- Bridget & I were in a car accident in Evanston the day before we left. Neither of us were seriously hurt (my thighs are just really sore and I have bruises on them from the airbag) but her car was smashed in. So, that was an upsetting way to leave the states but jeez, did it feel good to finally leave! I don´t have internet access at home- no one does- so we have to ... read more

Spent alot of time near Las Ramblas. Visited the Olympic Stadium, ate paella and ice cream waffles, went to the Sagrada Familia (amazing!) and Parc Guell (also brilliant). Picasso museum and a day by the 'beach' and lots of shopping! ... read more