Santa Isabel la Real

... only two people looking at us from the painting were El Greco and his son.  We also went to Sinagoga de Santa Maria La Blanca, which was a really pretty synagogue that looked a lot like the architecture from the mosque in Cordoba.  There were a ...

... outside of the church, playing with her belly button.  This temporarily made me forget about the pain of missing out on the Isabel pastries.   I needed to return the rental car at 10:30, but my ferry wasn't scheduled to depart until ...

... (Sunday is the only day off for most people), I would have moved on to Cali by now.  La Casa de los Espiritus by Isabel Allende and outings with people I've met has helped me pass many relaxing hours beyond the excess and ...

... marriage proposals, there is plenty of that, too. About 20 km from Havana, a relaxing, sunny afternoon on the sands of la playa Santa María del Mar is interrupted by a cocky young man berating a petite young woman, both in their late teens or early ...

... nbsp;              Sun-Tue 17-19/4/11 Accommodation Budget Posada Santa Isabel, Carrera 3 No. 3-38. I really liked this place, and it was far better value for money than the European owned ...

... at a tourist information office to buy a map of Cuba, and passed by some street performers on stilts, , then to the Hotel Santa Isabel building's bar at Plaza Armas for a cervesa.  We walked back towards Calle Obispo, the main shopping and main ...

... by the guidebook. We splurged a little bit (just a little, it was actually a pretty good deal) at the Hotel Santa Isabel a former nobleman's house converted into a very nice midrange hotel. After our very modest Madrid pensions, we were quite content ...

... it only took us half an hour to go through it all. We walked back to our hotel by way of the beach and Parque Isabel la Catolica, a beautiful park with an aviary and a huge playground for kids.  Once we checked out of the Hotel Arena, ...

... . A propósito antes de salir del hotel, intente (por tercera vez) llamar a Cruzi y llame a mi madrina, mi Tia Isabel ¡Que gusto oír su voz! La expliqué lo de venir a Calabor y en ese momento me motivo mucho mas ir. Bueno, compre los billetes para ir a ...

... garden with the same name is found in the area. We walked the western side of the wall along Santa Lucia St passing through the Beaterio de la Compania deJesus founded by Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo in 1684. This building was also destroyed in World ...

... downstream, forming an island. TIP: Read this novel  And this is where our novelist comes in: Isabel Allende, in Ines of My Soul, uses the real-life account of a fascinating historically named woman, Ines Suarez, as the basis for her historical ...

... streets and squares that comprised the old Jewish quarter (the Jewish population had been expelled from Spain by Ferdinand V and Isabel I in 1492). It was very interesting walking through these old tiny streets because we encountered so many locals and ...

... .  Feels weird to be one degree of separation from the President himself. It’s like something out of an Isabel Allende novel. Inexplicably Independence Day is celebrated for three days.  It seems that pretty much everyone in town is ...