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May 7 - 3:30 am!!! Ronda

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May 7th 2015
It was a busy day and I wasn't planning to write anything, but I'm jet-lagged, it's 3:30 in the morning and I need something to do. We left the hotel in Madrid about 9:00 am this morning. Actually we left it twice, once at 9:30 and again at 10:00. The first time I made a wrong turn coming out of the hotel parking lot and we spent the next half hour lost on the back streets and freeways till we ... 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