Tapas, tapas, tapas... and being greeted into hostels by girls in their underware
March 20th 2011 Ralph here. It's a hard life travelling as a stuffed dog. Spend most my time in a huge rucksack with smelly socks and get tossed around in buses and trains and i don't even get to sample all the delicious food! 😞 And of course, whenever Vanessa sleeps, she nearly squeezes the stuffing out of me! And the snoring and drooling i have to endure is unbearable, but for free room/board and trav
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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 
