Leira, Mikel and Kira

The Big Trip: Part Two - Basque Country

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April 17th 2008
We travelled to the Basque Country to stay with our friends Mikel (who we had met in Edinburgh days) and his wife Leire and baby daughter Kira. Mikel had taught us to rock climb in Edinburgh and we had been to the Basque Country in earlier years to do a bit of low level rock climbing and to see the country. On the drive from Barcelona to Basque Country, we stopped in a the Pyrenees Mountains a ... read more

Europe » Spain » Basque Country

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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