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"Bathelona!" Part Two

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May 15th 2007
Still laughing the next morning, this time at the pathetic ness of Dan who was feeling the pain of trying to keep up with his new friends, the Italian students, 10 years his junior, Erin and I left the boys to sulk and we headed back out to the beach to work on our tans and do a bit of wandering on our own, down to the marina and past the BMW training school and into the most gorgeous handcrafted ... 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