Grand Hotel Barbastro
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Sábado
... out to dinner. After dinner, I went home super exhausted. What a great day!
IT IS SO COLD HERE. I was DYING yesterday. It was probably around 60 degrees, but the wind was SO STRONG. It felt like a Chicago winter. Super jealous of my friends in ATL probably wearing shorts and flip flops, while I'm wearing a peacoat. It also was rainy all weekend. Hopefully it isn't cold and rainy during Pilar!
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Alquezar
So my many fans have been begging me to write here.
On Friday, we left for a pueblo called Alquezar. Only around 300 people actually live there, but they get lots of tourists. On the way, we stopped for a small hike to look at "abrigos" (which are like shallow caves) to see some examples of prehistoric art on the walls. This resonated with me, because I'm learning about prehistoric art right now in my art history class.
We arrived in Alquezar, ...
Snow bunnies!
... so we drive into the tiny town for dinner, only to find that its just as quiet in town! Only two restaurants are open so we pick one and head inside. We are having trouble reading the menu and our waiter doesn’t speak any English so we point at random dishes on the menu and hope for the best! The first course comes out, I am horrified to discover I have picked a tasteless bland bolognaise for my entrée, followed by thin chicken breast served almost raw ...
Christmas in Northern Spain
It's Christmas. Yesterday we were three in a small European car leaving Barcelona with map and full tank of gas. West we went then onwards north. Small Spanish towns came into view and disappeared as easy as they came. Slightly north we found our way into the foothills of the Pyrenees. Sometimes we were lost but it didn’t matter we would find our way. We arrived at a small nameless town and cruised up a hill under the cover of the darkness of a long set sun. These places with ...
Old stuff and the mood
The scenery is magnificent and every village has a church of the Romanesque style and all of the buildings are of stone and most appear ancient. The oldest buildings in the US appear modern in comparison. There are castles and monasteries all over the map and I have visited a few. There is definitely a medieval flavor to it all. It gets ...
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