Parador de Oropesa Toledo

Hey Everyone!<br>Just wanted to update you all on whats has been going on. School is going well. We just had our "midterms", which were a complete joke. One of my teachers actually told us that her exam wasn't worth studying for. It is a very welcomed change from the academic work at K College. During our free afternoons I still tend to take a lot of siestas. But also, me and a few people from my group have ...

... t help but agree.<br><br>We also saw lots of overweight naked women painted by Reubens. The ladies appeared Reubenesque, I guess. Nick was sorry that he had not brought some yellow stickies, to improve the general level of modesty.<br><br>There were Old Masters by the roomful - and there were really no crowds. We hit it exactly right, as we had the Louvre. No line ups at places that are supposed to be choked.<br><br>So now ...

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know how everything is going. Last weekend me and 7 other students rented a couple cars and took a road trip! ROAD TRIP! haha, i know. We headed for Toledo, about a four hour drive north just south of Madrid. lets just say that taking a drive through spain is beautiful! i couldn´t believe it! that and it´s the first time that ive seen actually greenery for a couple months! We had such a ...

... I got was 2 pieces of bread with cheese in the middle, just regular cheese, not grilled. The first thing I thought was "I could have made that in five seconds." But, I figured out that bocadillo meant sandwich (basically) from that. The cheese was very dry. I asked for some salsa and the waiter(in Spanish) asked if I wanted it spicy. I said I didn't care, but he basically insisted on knowing so I said ...

... we weren't sure. Lots of cops out and about to keep the peace and coordinate traffic. Checked out a bunch of knife shops, for souvenirs for Marc, who is an expert on cuchillos. ;) Every single tourist-souvenir shop sells them, along with crazy swords, shields, replica pistols, and various ninja gear. He finally settled on getting some good quality stuff from a real knife ...

February sidled away, taking my first proper month in Madrid with it. Spring made a number of heroic but ill-planned false starts, each time suppressed beneath flurries of snow. when eventually, mid-march, winter was bested and driven back to the mountains, a completely different Madrid was revealed, hibernating and dreaming of ham and sunshine. Daffodils appeared overnight on median strips, and the markets, parks and squares of the town filled with heliophiles ...

... congregating in patches of sun, enjoying life and love over a cigar, a beer, and a side of ham. Accordian players earn centa in the touristy squares, senegalese immigrants sell pirated DVDs, and an over-dressed and glamourous assortment of garbage men and women flirtatiously empty bins or sweep gutters. Ugliness here is a crime. Even the local metro-station bum looks uncannily ike courtney love. There may be something in this... So this is my Madrid. I suspect over the ...

yeeeps!!! Ik ben er geraakt..... de eerste verbrande huid is er zelfs al aant afbaderen. Alos de zon hier schijnt is da iets helemaal anders dan int vaderland, hier leeft men niet met een miezerig schraal winterzonnetje, hier staat ze recht boven uwe kop en brand, brand hard! Maar eerst een heerlijk weekje bij de japi kamperen. Daar een heel aantal leuke mensen ontmoet

Hola from Madrid, the capital of Spain! I have been in Madrid for three days now and tomorrow I leave for a much smaller town called Alicante in southern Spain. Since being in Madrid I have been on two daytrips. The first one I went to the town of El Escorial where we took a bus to El Valle de los Callidos (The Valley of the Fallen)! This is a beautiful valley high in the mountains that run north and west of ...

Hey Folks.. I have heard that a few people couldn't respond to my last travel log and it looks like the wrong email address was on the account. I just fixed it so if you sent me a message yesterday or would like to send a new one, you can now reply to this or any future travel log and it will be forwarded to me. The next log will be on its way in the next few hours. -Ari