Mountains northeast of Barcelona

This is the view from the Gerona (or Girona) airport, northeast of Barcelona. This part of Spain looks a lot like coastal California, with mountains and beach right next to each other.

Round-About Barcelona

December 18th 2006
I decided to entitle this blog entry Round-about Barcelona because that’s what we spent a lot of our time in Barcelona doing—going around roundabouts. While Barcelona is a beautiful and exciting city, one of its downsides is that its streets are very poorly marked. I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times that we missed our turn (we had a rental car) and had to circle around in ... 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

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