With Christian

Granada!

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January 24th 2011
This weekend I went to Granada (located in the South of Spain) with a bunch of friends. We took a bus right from Madrid which took about five hours and was very convenient. Obviously I slept the whole way there and back, as I always do. We arrived at the hostel very late afternoon. As this was many of our first time staying in a hostel, some of us forgot our passports. We didn't realize we would n ... 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