Category Archives: Spanish

Spain Pictures – Madrid!

6/9/2008 – 12:35 pm

/ / I’ve practically blinded myself by staring at pictures for the last couple days but I’m in the process of adding captions and descriptions to each. Go the Spain pictures page, click on Madrid (either the name or the picture) and take a look. To be honest, few of these pictures are spectacular but [...]

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Home Safely!

6/7/2008 – 10:47 am

/ Made it home safely and soundly (and quite late) last night. It seems like no airline travel can be completed without an epic story to accompany it and ours was no different. Getting out of Spain was relatively hassle-free (despite being asked for passports and boarding passes five times before we reached our seats—Amy [...]

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El Norte Contra el Sur

6/2/2008 – 12:18 pm

/ We bid a sad farewell to Todd and Stephanie today in Pamplona after touring a good portion of northern Spain with them. To be blunt, the Rioja region left a lot to be desired. They are known for producing some of Spain’s better wines and ham, yet it was frustrating to find a place [...]

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Más de España

5/31/2008 – 12:12 pm

/ We arrived in Haro, in the Rioja wine region, a few hours ago and found out that the hotel has free Internet access. Since it’s raining and we’re all pooped, what better time for an update on our travels? The weather has not been what we hoped. Rain has been a central feature of [...]

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A Belated Update

5/29/2008 – 10:08 am

/ Right so we’re heading down the home stretch of our trip. I have been having problems posting to the blog, and I’m not sure if it was an IE problem (most of the Internet places have been few and far between and have only had IE) but whatever. Things have been going very well. [...]

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Viva España

5/29/2008 – 10:03 am

NOTE: This post is stale due to posting problems from Europe, hence the radio silence. Right, so Internet cafe stops have been few and far between this trip. We are coming up on the half-way point of the trip, having seen Madrid, Toledo, Sevilla, Arcos, several White Hill Towns, and now Ronda. Tomorrow we head [...]

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It’s All About the Torta Cubana

3/19/2008 – 12:44 pm

I’ve mentioned my love of the torta cubana before and I must again sing its praises. And I should also mention that no one does this sandwich quite like La Concha Bakery. The ingredient list is something like: bun, lettuce, tomato, onion, jalapeño, scrambled egg, fried pork cutlet, split sausage link, ham, chorizo, mayo, white [...]

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Una Aventura Amorosa Vieja (an Old Love Affair)

2/27/2008 – 12:08 am

Brother Todd and I have agreed to make standing Skype appointments to speak Spanish on Monday and Friday mornings. I was amazed at how hard it was to speak Spanish for a half-hour after months away without practice, and it’s no less amazing how much easier it was the second and third times. It also [...]

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¡Vamos a Costa Rica! y Más Español

1/10/2008 – 11:04 am

On the move again, this time to Costa Rica. Here’s a visual to give you a rough idea of our itinerary: We start in Liberia then move up to the volcano country in Arenal in the Alajuela province, then over to the cloud forests of Monteverde. After that we spend a day or two at [...]

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Too Much Spanish?

1/4/2008 – 11:35 am

I’m finishing the last quarter of Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing and should finish it in the next couple days. It’s good. I like it more than All the Pretty Horses and less than Blood Meridian, which I hope to reread before break even though I listened to the audio version just a couple months ago. [...]

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