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Keeping our Cool in a Cool City

A travel blog entry by 4inworld

... we just had the most amazing tour around Southern Spain (will blog with pics on that) and I have come to realize that this city has so much to offer. We are all together, healthy, safe, happy and in a cool city with cool things to see. This adventure is about different things, different experiences, and maybe we won't meet anyone here that we hold in our hearts as we move on to another country. But that's okay- we are getting a great experience of living in a city, navigating our ...

Barcelona: Separate or the Same?

A travel blog entry by niccouvrette

... opportunity to learn Spanish. The dominance of the language can be seen in all parts of the city. All the traffic signs, advertisements, and any other place that has writing is in Catalan rather than Spanish. One of the other main cultural icons of Barcelona also uses Catalan in their motto, "Mes Que Un Club."

Dating back to the Franco years FCB has always been the rival to Franco’s Real Madrid. Franco had banned anything that showed disunity of Spain; ...

Muslim expulsion and the Mercado

A travel blog entry by catswain

... station a few blocks away. I was very hot and tired, so it wasn't so much fun having to go search for that station and then walk back. However, the cold shower I took when I got home made up for it.

Tonight I am going to watch "The Tudors" in Spanish with Vicente. I watched it last week too. It is weird watching an English production dubbed into Spanish. I think I would like to watch the whole series in English at some point.

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¡Viaje a Menises!

A travel blog entry by mdiamon2

... was really good, but fish still isn�t my favorite thing! I ate most of it and finished out the tomato soup! Tonight was the first time I had a Valencian orange too! They eat the friut differently here, everything is eaten with a fork and knife! Se�ora Amparo was taken surprised when I ate the apple with the skin on, but she couldn�t believe Bethany was eating the peach without cutting the skin off! The oranges are incredibly good, they�re better than any ...

Las Fallas

A travel blog entry by andrewbray

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... move. Neither he nor I liked this, and we both decided that Valencia would probably be a lot nicer without the festival and all the people.
On Sunday, we went into the city again and started out by seeing the Cathedral. Anna and I decided to then walk to the opera house to see the inside, but it was not open. We then went to the beach to meet up with my Spanish friends for some paella. The restaurant was great and had a touch of class to it. ...