The Ride to the Airport

We were blessed with amazing weather the whole time we were in Barcelona. It didn't rain until the day we left--when we were driving to the airport and then on a plane. The rest of the time that we were there--while we were outside--it was sunny and nice. We've been very fortunate on all of our trips around Europe that we've had good weather. At any rate, this is the highway that we drove along up to Gerona Airport--it wound right along the coast.

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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