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Travel Blogs from Vitoria-Gasteiz
Logroño
Logroño is a city in the heart of the main Spanish wine producing region of La Rioja. A school friend of mine, Steve Martinez, had moved out here eight years ago so I contacted him to tell him I'd be passing through. Steve and his girlfriend Lola took me on a tour of one of the six-hundred "bodegas" just outside Logroño. I was expecting a remote location but a town had sprung up around the bodega. Not surprising since it had been ...
And so we continue
... car that most of which you're going to miss. The walk from Estella wasn't too challenging but it's when I first noticed I had truly arrived in wine country. Every other field had row upon row of vines growing, something that will continue throughout the Navarra and Rioja regions. In Estella I opted for a quiet night and decided to get some provisions at the local grocers. So for dinner I had canned bean stew (fabada asturiana) ...
Another Adventure - In the Basque Country
My family loves hosting exchange students, and in the summer of 2011 we hosted a girl my age from Vitoria-Gasteiz, (the second largest city in the Basque Country in the north of Spain - close to the French border) for one month. It was the beginning of a cool friendship. When Oihane found out I was going to study abroad in Spain for three months, she insisted that I come visit her and stay with her family... and so here I am :)
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SCHOOL TRIP
Hello everyone,
this year our school is celebrating its 25th anniversary and we would like to organize a school trip.
We would really appreciate it if you could help us choose the destination. That´s why we would like you to contribute by writing an entry we could publish on the school´s blog describing a place and giving reasons why we should choose that destination.
Thank you in advance.
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Long Way to Just go Shopping
... Hontoria (a place name). The last tunnel we went through was named Pena Maria (Sorrowful Maria).
We paid a toll of 10.10 Euros at the end of the toll road. That was still some 20 or 30 kilometers from Vitoria-Gasteiz. We finally arrived at our destination at about 12:30. We made our purchase and found ourselves on the road toward Madrid at about 13:00. We stopped for lunch at an Autogrill. These are throughout Spain. It is ...