Hotel Emperatriz Mérida

While in Spain, our professor made it a point to visit a few different works of Moneo- a Spanish architect. It's interesting because we've studied him and school and he's supposed to be like really awesome. Although everything we visited was really nice in some ways, I think we all were disappointed a little too. That being said, the Museum of ...

Well that was unexpectedly easy! I have shown complete respect for the stages through Spain because I knew from the outset that Spain would present the greatest challenges. Today I correctly anticipated having to cross a couple of mountain ridges and I was not disappointed. However I was surprised to find that I flew along and knocked an hour of...

We went to El Prado today, it was pretty much, wild. J.k. We saw three main artists thanks to our awesome tour guide Ines. She talked about Velazquez, Goya and El Greco. I pretty much only managed to stay awake because I'm doing a presentation on El Greco on the 15...but don't tell her I said that. I was also dismayed to hear that we weren't al...

Another crazy plan!!!! I´m on my way to Orjiva to spend some time at the Dragon festival (a free music festival, near Granada).. With some complications and delay I finally found my way out of Matavenero again... I got a lift to Benavente with someone who lives some times in the village. He went to Tamera, a (spiritual) community in Portugal, to...

Just arrived in madrid after being sound asleep from tgetting on the plane till touchdown so made alot of friends with my snoring no doubt! For a totally climate and sun shy shetlander now the 23 degrees in madrid is tanning me through my clothes already so half melted! Next flight leaves anytime now so in 11 hours time I should be attempting to...

The Story Generally in life, if I want to go somewhere, I don't tend to bounce my ideas off of anyone because the majority of people I know and meet have not travelled as vastly as Lucy and myself. However, there are a few, like Paul, who for a Pom has been to some obscure places, then there is Mini Me for WW1 stuff, and for other places, especi...

No rest for the wicked. Somewhat jet-lagged, definitely tired, and with one colleague suffering from a migraine, we nonetheless tackled this Sunday with energy and the drive to get things done. After all, we're here for work, and today was our "setup day" -- prior to the 7 days of training we will be conducting, starting tomorrow morning. The br...

Hanging around in Madrid until Sunday night for my train to Lisbon held one unexpected benefit - it allowed me to catch an afternoon at the toros (bull fights). It's not a pretty sight really and goes against my usual grave concern for the welfare of animals at the hands of man, but in Spain it is a cultural experience handed down through the ag...

i just sat here for an hour and wrote an epic story then it got erased....i´ll write it again when i get to my next destination. I leave for Granada, Spain following the advice of some californians that i met here. I got pics on here now so check 'em out!

Where did we last leave off..... Ah Kevs novel part 2, nah this one will be much shorter i hope. We waited around all arvo with Ben (the young innocent jew american), passing the time till our overnight train to Madrid. Spent 12Euros on Hot choclate and Cafe (and eclairs), because the only thing to do while waiting is eat. Our journey stared at ...