Hotel Liabeny Madrid

... me that I needed to take a course specifically listed as "Spanish" in order for it to count towards my major. This was quite unfortunate, because there are only 2 approved courses at the USP, and one of them meets late Friday afternoons, aka would ruin all potential travel plans. This leaves me with "Contemporary History of Spain I", which meets Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 8am and Thursday mornings at 9am (keep in mind that I have about a 45 minute ...

... in * cle*rly pl*tonic w*y, which I *ppreci*ted). I met her with the best liter box of wine * euro could buy *nd * couple of pl*stic cups *nd we w*tched the sunset over the roy*l p*l*ce *nd st*yed in the p*rk ch*tting until midnight. Then I went to bed in *nticip*tion of the beginning of 36 hours of tr*vel. Thursd*y morning, I woke up *nd hopped the tr*in to B*rcelon*, which would be my b*se point for the tr*in journey th*t would t*ke me to Berlin.<br><br ...

... Granjilla de La Fresneda, a royal hunting lodge and monastic retreat about five km away. These sites have a dual nature; that is to say, during the 16th and 17th centuries, they were places in which the temporal power of the Spanish monarchy and the ecclesiastical predominance of the Roman Catholic religion in Spain found a common architectural manifestation.[1] El Escorial was, at once, a monastery and a Spanish royal palace. Originally a property of the ...

... tutto senza prima averlo ricontrollato piu' volte. E' arrivato il giorno fatidico, martedi 16 dicembre. Ore 12.00, mi faccio accompagnare dal mio collega Roberto alla stazione e subito ho la prima sgadevole sorpresa....colonna davanti alla biglietteria, vabbe' faccio come ogni rispettabile cittadino italiano la mia bella fila, ma quando a 5 minuti dall'arrivo del treno ho ancora delle persona davanti a me, l'agitazione incomincia ...

... and headed to the main plaza. From the plaza we walked to the cathedral. If you have not been to Toledo, let me tell you that is made up of a maze of cobblestone streets. I was amazed that I was able to get us to the cathedral without using the map. Even having a map, it is still difficult to navigate around the town. I have visited Toledo twice before, but usually my friends guided me or I was with professors from SLU. Toledo´s cathedral is ...

... national holiday, so, of course, we took full advantage. We tucked ourselves indoors pretty often loving our twice-daily cafe con leches, free tapas in the evening and the best Spanish food hands down of the entire 5 weeks in Spain. The Museo del Jamon (not really a museum, just a place with a lot of ham) was the place for lunch a couple of times and La Taberna ...

So I haven't escriten (good spanglish word) for so many days because I'm on Spanish time now. And as I have explained that time is based on the idea of tomorrow (to be fair this isn't true of some peeps, but you add Mexican time plus Spanish time and you get a blog over a week late). Truth is... since the internship has been on a regular schedule, I don't get a chance to frolic in prostituteville anymore and haven't had as many sketch adventures to talk of. My internship has been ...

... was horrible and could not swiftly kill the bull. So, the bull was suffering badly. It was an experience, for sure, but I don't ever want to see it again. We left after this second fight, though I believe there was only one remaining. NOt for the weak stomached! When we walked out of the stadium, the streets were filled with people and there was a parade going right ...

... was almost gone. I found myself a huge cork tree inside the park and sat down to smell the flowers (with my snotty nose), just like Ferdinand. The baguettes were still piping hot and the Guaraná icy cold. Soon my stomach was full and I laid down for a read. I had brought Papillon with me, a book I have read a good few times before. It didn't take long before I drifted off to a Latin American adventure once again (no comparisons by the way).

... little hostel at Gran Via was more angry than me about it, she just didn't stop complaining about taxi drivers... so please never trust these taxi drivers at Madrid's airport, the best option for a single traveler is the shuttle taxi service that takes you safely and cheap to the city, well, if you don't mind, you can take the fantastic metro or the shuttle bus to Colon... It was ...