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Granada: Spain’s Last Moorish Conquest
After spending almost all of Thursday driving through Consuegra’s windmills and visiting the mosque of Córdoba, we finally arrived in the city we’d be sleeping for the next two nights: Granada. We didn’t get there until around 8:00pm, so we … Continue reading
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Tagged al-andalus, alhambra, andalucía, aragón, architecture, carlos v, castilla, catholic, caves, el escorial, escorial, felipe, felipe el hermoso, fernando, flamenco, fortress, gitano, granada, gypsies, gypsy, isabel, islam, juana la loca, market, moors, mountain, mudéjar, muslim, muslims, navarra, open-air market, palace, paradise, pashmina, philip, philip the handsome, pomegranate, reconquista, reyes católicos, romani, sierra nevada, toledo
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The Windmills of Don Quixote and Mosque of Córdoba
We left early Thursday morning for our trip from Madrid to Andalucía, one of Spain’s largest autonomous communities, located along the southern coast of the country and dominated by its Islamic history and influence. This will be a very long trip — … Continue reading
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Weekend trip to Amsterdam
On Friday morning I woke up at 4:00am to take my first trip out of Spain since I arrived a month and a half ago. Madrid’s metro rail doesn’t run at that hour, but luckily there’s a 24 hour shuttle service … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, amsterdam centraal, anne frank, anne frank's house, art, bloemenmarkt, botanical garden, canabis, canal, canal tour, canals, centraal, central station, cheese, coffeeshops, dam square, de wallen, drug policy, drugs, flower market, flowers, food, french fries, gedoogbeleid, gouda, heineken, heineken experience, hermitage, holocaust, homomonument, hop on hop off, hortus, hostel, houseboats, i amsterdam, ij, marijuana, market, metro, museum, museumplein, museums, nazi, nazis, nemo, nemo science center, netherlands, nl, party, plaza de cibeles, prostitutes, prostitution, red light, red light district, rijksmuseum, schiphol, secret annex, shuttle service, skinny bridge, smoking, st. christopher's in, stedelijk, stopera, stroopwafel, stroopwafels, trip, van gogh, van gogh museum, vip, wallen, weekend trip, winston, world war II
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Journalism field trip, Reina Sofía, and El Lobo de Wall Street
The last week has been pretty low-key. After staying up so late for the Super Bowl, the cold that I had been getting over came back with renewed fury and quite possibly a case of bronchitis, so I’ve been mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged abono, art, au, basque, basque country, class, dalí, elena, field trip, franco, guernica, journal, journalism, lobo de wall street, luis buñuel, mario, metro, modern art, movie, movie theater, movies, museum, netflix, news, pablo picasso, paco, país vasco, phone, picasso, reina sofía, salvador dalí, santiago bernabéu, stadium, trips, un chien adalou, un perro andaluz, v.o., v.o.s., wolf of wall street
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Madrid’s Prado Museum
The Museo del Prado is Spain’s largest art museum. It’s located right in the middle of Madrid, about a 10 minute walk to the east of Puerta del Sol and right off of Plaza de Cibeles, the night bus hub that’s also … Continue reading
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Tagged arqueological museum, art, art changes, bank of spain, christ washing the disciple's feet, class, dalí, disrobing of christ, el greco, elites, elitism, european art, goya, greco, hierarchy, kings, las meninas, monarchs, museo arueológico, museo del prado, museum, paco, patricia, picasso, plaza de cibeles, portraits, prado, puerta del sol, queens, reina sofía, retiro, royalty, royalty of spain, sol, spain seminar, spanish monarchs, thyssen-bornemisza, tintoretto, titian, velázquez
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Super Bowl XLVIII as an expat
Like the 111.5 million other people in the United States, some friends and I stayed up late on Sunday night to watch the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. Kick-off was scheduled for 6:30pm… but that’s east coast … Continue reading
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Paseo #2: Authentic Flamenco Performance
Unlike the typical Paseos por Madrid which take place during the day on Fridays, this week’s class took place at 9:30 on Wednesday night and didn’t finish until 11:30. Being out so late (though, honestly, midnight is not late in Spain) … Continue reading
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Tagged andalucía, andalusia, brazil, culture, dance, duende, duendes, flamenco, guitar, gypsies, gypsy, mudéjar, music, paseo, paseos por madrid, performance, phrygian scale, romani, samba, show, singing, song
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Snowy Mountain Hike in Cercedilla
As if we didn’t get our fill of the outdoors during our visit to the Retiro yesterday, today we decided to go on a hike in the Sierra de Guadarrama within the Cuenca Alta del Manzares regional park. This is actually … Continue reading
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Tagged cercanías, cercedilla, commuter rail, hike, hiking, nature, outdoors, sierra de guadarrama, snow
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First Paseo: Retiro Park and a Flamenco Class
Paseos por Madrid is another class offered as part of American University’s Iberian Experience that the Madrid Business Program students can participate in occasionally. Paseo is a Spanish word that means a walk or stroll, though its connotation is very … Continue reading
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Tagged andalucía, andalusia, art, atocha, boat, cats, class, dance, dance class, elena, franco, keke, monument, park, paseo, paseos por madrid, reina sofía, renfre, retiro, retiro park, tirso de molina
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