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Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the West Bank

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Casey Brown

For my last trip before heading back home from study abroad, I decided to visit Israel with Elyssa, my friend from high school who’s currently studying abroad in Jordan. I originally wanted to visit her in Amman, but it was expensive … Continue reading →

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The Basque Country: Bilbao and San Sebastián

Posted on 10 May 2014 by Casey Brown

One of the few places in Spain that our program didn’t have the chance to bring us was the Basque Country. Since we had a few days between exams, Hyunjin, Ben, Christy, and I decided to take a two day … Continue reading →

Posted in Study Abroad in Madrid | Tagged andalusia, basque country, beach, beach of la concha, beret, bilbao, bus, casco viejo, castilla, catedral de santiago, cathedral, church of san antón, culture, donostia, eight basque surnames, eso es, estuary, eta, euskadi, euskera, food, france, funicular, gastronomy, gothic quarter, gran vía, gran vía de don diego lópez de haro, guggenheim, guggenheim museum, igeldo, igueldo, la concha, levantamiento de peso, medieval, mountain, mountains, movie, movie theater, movies, museum, museums, ocho apellidos vascos, país vasco, pelota, pinchos, pinxos, port, racquetball, ría, rock lifting, san antón, san sebastian, seafood, siete calles, sports, squash, tapas, trip, trips, txoko, urgull, vasco, yoko ono | Leave a comment

Asturias: the land of cider and beaches

Posted on 3 May 2014 by Casey Brown

After our 10 day spring break trip, we were greeted with 4 days of exams. It was a busy week, but it’s good to know that now I’m done with four out of my five classes that I’ve been taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Study Abroad in Madrid | Tagged asturian language, asturias, bay of biscal, beach, beaches, beautiful, beauty, bonding, bonfire, cantabria, cantabrian sea, cantábrico, cave, cave art, caves, cheese, chirzo a la sidra, chorizo, cider, covadonga, cueva de tito bustillo, culture, death, dogs, echar un culín, empanadas, espiche, funeral, hard sider, lagos de covadnoa, lakes of convadonga, llagar, llanes, mar cantábrico, maricarmen, mirador de la franca, mountain, north, northern spain, our lady of covadonga, paleothic art, picos de europa, playa, po, poo, ribadedeva, ribadesella, san vicente de la barquera, sidra, tito bustillo, tortilla, trip, trip of beauty, trips | Leave a comment

A Rainy Trip to Porto with the best sandwich ever

Posted on 14 April 2014 by Casey Brown

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 →

Posted in Study Abroad in Madrid | 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 | Leave a comment

Valencia and the hanging houses of Cuenca

Posted on 10 April 2014 by Casey Brown

Our day started early on Thursday, March 26, with a meetup time of 8:45am in Príncipe Pío for our second to last weekend trip, this time to Cuenca and Valencia towards the east. The central city of Cuenca in Castilla-La … Continue reading →

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Barcelona and Catalonia through Picasso, Dalí, and Gaudí

Posted on 11 March 2014 by Casey Brown

As you can see from all of these travel blog posts, a lot of our time abroad is spent outside of Madrid. I actually only have two weekends left in the city with no trips at all! This past weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in Study Abroad in Madrid | Tagged antoni gaudí, art, art nouveau, autonomous community, autonomy, balearic islands, bar, barça, barcelona, barcelona cathedral, barri gòtic, barrio gótico, batlló, beach, bullfighting, cadaqués, camp nou, casa milà, catalan, catalan language, catalonia, cataluña, catalunya, cathedral, catholicism, cava, cheetah girls, colón, columbus, correbous, crypt, cubism, dalí, dance, dictatorship, dow jones, encierro, espardenya, eu, european union, eurozone, fc barcelona, figueras, figueres, first communion, font de canaletes, food, fountain, francisco franco, franco, fútbol, gaudí, gothic, gothic quarter, grave, independence, joan miró, l'ovella negra, la boqueria, la rambla, language, las ramblas, maremagnum, marina, market, mediterranean, mediterranean sea, modernism, montjuïc, mountain, museu picasso, museum, neo-gothic, olympics, oppression, pablo picasso, paella, palau nacional, park güell, passeig de gràcia, patatas bravas, picasso, plaça d'espanya, plaça reial, plaza de españa, plaza de toros, port, ports, protest, referendum, sagrada familia, salvador dalí, sangria, sardana, science and charity, secession, session, sevilla, single market, soccer, surrealism, tapas, tididabo mountain, tomb, toro embolado, travel, trips, ukraine, valencia | Leave a comment

Lisbon and the Ancient Roman City of Mérida

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Casey Brown

If we thought we had spent a lot of time traveling by bus on our trip through southern Spain, we were definitely in for a surprise. It took us around four hours to get from our previous stop, Sevilla, to … Continue reading →

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Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the West Bank

The Basque Country: Bilbao and San Sebastián

Asturias: the land of cider and beaches

A Rainy Trip to Porto with the best sandwich ever

Valencia and the hanging houses of Cuenca

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