La Alberca, Spain Travel Blogs

From Lost to the River
Oct 28, 2008

... the exclamation, "I'll sleep when I am dead!"   During our recent linguistic and cultural adventure in La Alberca, an old village in Western Spain, Casey and I learned a lot about the Spanish language, and concomitantly, a great deal about the ...

From Lost to the River
Oct 28, 2008

... the exclamation, "I'll sleep when I am dead!"   During our recent linguistic and cultural adventure in La Alberca, an old village in Western Spain, Casey and I learned a lot about the Spanish language, and concomitantly, a great deal about the ...

one bad egg
Sep 27, 2006 (10 photos)

... fiesta, so there was much dancing and drinking and general merriment. A good finish to the day anyway! Tuesday morning we walked in to La Alberca and had a tour of the village, which I had on the previous time I was here. So halfway through a few of us ...

fiesta
Jun 21, 2006 (17 photos)

... idea! Then last night was game 2 for Spain in the World Cup, so the dinner hour was rearranged so we could watch the game. Spain of course won, which led in very well to the fiesta afterward. Most people managed to stay up for it, and everyone had a great ...

covert ops
Sep 28, 2006 (17 photos)

... elements of sex, lies and betrayal. What more can you ask for in 15 minutes? Later that night a bunch of us headed in to La Alberca for one last night at the disco. We even managed to drag Barb along, who got out on the dance floor with all of us to ...

the end of another week
Jun 23, 2006 (12 photos)

... drinking far too much, lounging by the pool or on my air mattress (which has made it all the way from Croatia to Spain!), talking, lots of talking, laughing, and just generally having an amazing week! Cheers to the staff who were amazing, Esther as our PD ...

La Alberca - round 2
Sep 25, 2006 (8 photos)

... the way I sat with Pablo, who kept me fascinated with stories of when he was the national champion of mountain biking in Spain, his terrible accident that left him with 2 broken collar bones, a broken wrist, and various other injuries that cut his career ...

back in Spain
Jun 19, 2006 (30 photos)

... after he drove me around Madrid showing me some of the sights! A fabulous personal tour guide :) And now, I am at La Alberca doing a second program for Pueblo Ingles. It's a different facility than Valdalavilla, much newer, with only 2 people sharing a ...

Talking With Guiris
Apr 20, 2008 (13 photos)

... while pounding glass after glass of wine.  We get a little Flamenco performance and plan to meet tomorrow for the bus to La Alberca.       We stand around waiting for the bus while other Anglos begin to mistake Gina for a ...

another one bites the dust
Sep 29, 2006 (19 photos)

... afternoon away! Fantastic. During the evening O2O Manuel took a few of us to a nearby town called San Martin.It's gorgeous! While La Alberca is very pretty, it is also quite touristy with lots of souvenir shops etc. San Martin is not touristy at all, ...