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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Spring Break Part 2: Prague, Czech Republic
After a long 7-hour train ride from Budapest that may have given us food poisoning, we finally arrived in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Though it took a while, traveling by train was definitely worth it because we … Continue reading
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Tagged absinthe, alcohol, arm, astronomical clock, atheism, atheist, beatles, beer, bohemia, castle, cemetery, charles bridge, christmas market, church of st. james, clock, communism, crown, currency, czech national bank, czech republic, czechoslovakia, czk, defenestration, easter, easter market, film, food, ghetto, hail, jewish ghetto, jewish quarter, jewish town hall, jews, john lennon, judaism, lennon wall, liberal, market, movie, mummified, nazi, nazis, new town, old jewish cemetery, old new synagogue, old town, old town square, passover, petřín, petřín hill, plague, powder tower, prague, prague astronomical clock, prague castle, protestant reformation, rain, slovakia, soviet union, spring break, square, statues, synagogue, thirty year's war, tower, town hall, train, transport, trdelník, vin diesel, vlatava river, weather, xxx
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Paseo to Lavapiés
On Wednesday, April 10, we had our last paseo. 🙁 With the week of Easter being our spring break, this week was the end of all of our classes at the AU Study Center. When we come back from spring … Continue reading
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Tagged aslim, bohemia, bohemian, castizo, catholic monarchs, cnt, community, confederación nacional de trabajo, immigrants, immigration, jewish, jews, kike, la latina, lavapiés, legazpi, paseo, paseos por madrid, reyes católicos, sephardi, sol, tabacalera
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A Rainy Trip to Porto with the best sandwich ever
We booked our trip to Porto, Portugal, expecting sun and beaches. When we checked the weather in the week up to our departure, we learned the reality would be far from it. Thanks to some open minds, we ends up … Continue reading
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Tagged aliados, beach, bookshop, bookstore, capa negra II, cathedral, church, clérigos, d, douro, duero, food, francesinha, gaia, harry potter, house, igreja do carmo, igreja dos carmelitas, j. k. rowling, jk rowling, liberdade quare, livrari lello, pedro, pedro IV, port, port wine, porto, portugal, railway station, ribera, river, sandwich, são bento, sirius black, sun, torre de clérigos, tripa, tripe, university of porto, weather, wine
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Archaeological Museum, Botanical Gardens, and Reina Sofía
The week following our trip to Valencia was another one filled with field trips and a paseo to sites around Madrid, including the Archaeological Museum and Reina Sofía with Paco and the Botanical Gardens with Kike. On Tuesday, Paco took … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeological museum, art, bakery, baza, colón, croissant, dalí, dama, dama de baza, dama de elche, dessert, easter, elche, falleras, field trip, food, french toast, garden, goya, greenhouses, guernica, holy week, iberians, joan miró, kike, lady of baza, lady of elche, lent, metro, miró, modern art, museum, napolitana, pablo picasso, paco, pain au chocolat, panadería, park, paseo, picasso, plants, plaza de colón, plaza de murillo, prado, real jardín botánico, reina sofía, royal botanical gardens, salvador dalí, semana santa, serrano, torrija, valencia, weather
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El Pardo: Franco, the monarchy, and the political situation in Spain
I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been slammed with work and traveling. (Yeah, occasionally we do experience the “study” in study abroad.) I’m gonna try to get as many blog posts in as a I … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, adolfo suárez, basque, car, catalan, catalonia, cataluña, catcholicism, catholic church, caudillo, civil war, democracy, desarrollismo, development, dictatorship, el pardo, felipe, francisco franco, franco, gay marriage, goya, herrera, homestay, juan carlos, mariano rajoy, oria, país vasco, palacio, palacio de el pardo, palacio real, palaco de la zarzuela, politics, protests, rajoy, referendum, religion, salamanca, same-sex marriage, san lorenzo de el escorial, señora, spanish civil war, suárez, transition, transition to democracy, valle de los caídos, zapatero, zarzuela
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