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Vigo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Vigo, Spain and Canary Islands
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Dream anchorage
... in the morning. We just about had enough food for the night so we turned Dunikolu towards the island. The sun was shining and all looked wonderful. Another yacht was anchored there and a motor cruiser. We weren't in any hurry so we ...
Vigo
Time to Settle
... that my home now occupies the 9th floor of a tiny apartment, also referred to as the attic, in a town named Vigo, in a country named Spain. The journey back from Barcelona was rough and not pretty… I woke up the morning of my flight feeling ...
Is that the sea I smell?
... . I gave him a call to find what car he was in, and we all piled in to embark on an 8 hour trip across northwestern Spain. We actually managed to keep the conversation going for the first 7 hours of the trip, as we sped under a dim cloud cover across ...
False Friends
... up sounding something like this “in America we put a lot of hormonas y preservativos in our food, and I think that the food in Spain is more healthy because it does not have the hormonas o preservativos”. Immediately Antonio stiffens up, gets ...
I have a home
... city I told him my mom and I were going off to go visit. Turns out Emilio is a lawyer and a history buff. Great candidate for my third friend in Spain. We spent the next few days running around the city buying a few things to make the apartment ...
Oysters & Tapas in Vigo
... For lunch we bought oysters from a street vendor and then took them to a bar nearby where we ate the oysters with Lemon and drinks. Vigo, although larger than many of the neighboring towns is a much laid back city. Crew Schedules and Hours We had a crew ...
Day trip!!
... movie, The Family Stone, but in Spanish. It was great you all should see it! After some wine, tapas, and coffee, we met some other girls and they introduced us to the Vigo night life. The 6 a.m. train came way too early. It was a nice little day ...
November and December Highlights
... now. J They like to fight over which Spanish fútbol players would be featured in the Hall of Fame if they had one here in Spain, and the slogan “fear the beard” is now part of regular hallway talk. My next lesson plan was “American ...
Spanish New Year's
... ;s family. This clashing of outfit attire rarely happens for any of our US holidays, but in Spain, New Year’s Eve is first celebrated with a long and large dinner with the entire extended family, usually lasting from around 10-12pm. After the grapes ...
Echamos un vistazo por Portugal, and more goodbyes
... their overactive cocker spaniel kept getting in the goldfish pond and stirring up all the sediment on this hot, sunny day in Spain. And we were then ushered to the kitchen, where we were introduced to Jasmine and forced to try some incredibly succulent, ...
New Year's Resolutions
... THAT advanced, they too have sliding glass doors) Proper preparation requires prior evaluation and selection of typical recipes and dishes from SPAIN instead of the comfort food I was accustomed to back HOME. Searching for taco seasoning and canned ...
Accomodation for E6.50
... and went back to sleep until 7.10am as I wanted a bit of time to go to the bathroom before I was in Vigo (Spain)(7.30am). I arrived and went straight to the information counter to find out how to get to Porto (in Portugal). The train was leaving from ...
Last stop before home
... the coach that took us on our tour. As we left Vigo heading north along a motorway, I realized how green everywhere was compared to when we went to Rojales and the South East of Spain last year. It reminded us both of the Lake District in ...
The first day
... , the city is built upwards relative to the lack of ground space. My cousin David, 23 and studying Business at Vigo University, and I went about our business while they went to visit others. David drove me to his university, drove past the car ...
Fri./Sat.: The last day / the travel back
... you stop wine, bread, cheese...it just seems to appear at the table. Later we went to Javier & Maria's (a cousin) to hang out and say goodbye to everyone. We got home at 1:00 am...time flies when your having fun. David took me to the ...
Islands
Up north and out of Portugal, to a little place called Vigo. Not much in the town of Vigo, but just off the coast, a couple of little islands (National Parks) which you can catch a ferry to, yet the only accommodation is to camp... Which we decided upon, ...
2nd Day (Saturday)
... . We then went bowling at a place that had 8 lanes and was near the beach, a few lanes over was the best bowler in Spain ...otherwise typical bowling alley (I came in last place among the 4 of us...sorry i did not represent us better). Time to go to the ...
Thursday: A cannon, beach and Soccer
... this with that I am 30 yrs old playing with and against 23 yr olds, I am from America and everyone else is from Spain and lastly I have not kicked a soccer ball in 5 yrs let alone play sand soccer...I did not feel I represented us well. So we ...
Stunning Spanish Coasts
... wasn’t warm enough to do any sun bathing but we did stick our feet in the water. We took the ferry across from Vigo to Cangas. It was almost magical because there were dolphins jumping alongside our boat. When we arrived to the other side, they put ...
yahoo sunny spain
yahoo sunny spain this place was cool met some fishermen that took me out to collect there nets they didnt even speak english just cool guys, we had all kinds of fish octupuss, rays, sole, but mostly ...
Vigo - A great place to stay (away from)
The next leg was off to Vigo, a city on the water. Why did we choose it? Dunno. It was a dot on a map. It was OK, but generally ...
A Casa
I´m back in Vigo and I feel like I remember everything. It´s strange to be back in a place that I once called home. I took the trenhotel from Madrid Chamartin yesterday and since I was out in the sun all day in Córdoba, I´m sure I smelled pretty ...
Friend #3
... meal, I hung out with Pedro and Henar and we went to visit various places in Vigo I was familiar with. We hit Playa Samil and new Vigo and a pass through the entire city street grid. Oh Samil. I used to take the bus there in the afternoons just because I ...
Hola from Vigo
... down to Lisboa, Portugal. It´s only a 35 hour trip so we should be fine even if ending up in foul weather. Vigo is a nice town close to the Portugese border with great seafood restaurants. Their Spanish is impossible to understand since it´s very ...
Vigo - First Port of Call
This morning the Queen Elizabeth docked in her maiden port of call, Vigo in Spain. It is pronounced as vee-go, rather than Vigo, the town about seven miles away from us in Tyne & Wear called vy-go. We had been here once before, 11 ...
Los Tiquetes!!
Después de mirar muchas opciones, decidimos que la mejor manera de llegar a China era a través de la línea aérea rusa "Aeroflot", o "Aeroplop" (como prefiere llamarla Lí), los precios de los tiquetes son competitivos, eso si, hay que aguantar la ...
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