Entries from 'Spain'
Returning Home to Madrid
On September 1, 2001, I moved to Madrid to study abroad with other students from my college in California. During four short months, I caught the travel bug and haven’t looked back. Madrid was the city where I “grew up” and started seeing the world differently. During this study abroad program, I lived with a…
Gaudí’s Barcelona
Packing up and leaving our beautiful apartment in San Sebastián was hard, but were looking forward to heading east to Barcelona! The Mediterranean, cool Gaudi architecture and delicious paella were the main things I remember from my trip to Barcelona twelve years ago. We hopped on a train from San Sebastián and upon arrival we…
A Culinary Expedition: Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
San Sebastián is known to be the culinary mecca of Spain, and we enjoyed every moment of our time here. Only 12 miles from the French border, San Sebastián (or Donastia, as it is known in the local Basque dialect) was the perfect place to spend a month surfing and eating. We never had a shortage…
Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage by Car (not by foot)
After a long cruise from England, we arrived in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. We enjoyed a good night’s sleep at a local hotel and then headed out towards Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, in the northwest corner of Spain. This beautiful coastal drive took us about five hours. We soon realized that we were driving along the…
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