Girona

A Few More Days in Banyoles

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June 18th 2010
So the next day Panxii and I got up to go look at their town's weekly market, which actually wasn't really that great. There was a huge section of it where they just sold clothes, which is different from the US, but then all the rest of it seemed to be just normal fruits and stuff. There were a bunch of booths with different meats and cheeses, but mostly it seemed like regular stuff that you cou ... read more

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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