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The Basque Country: Bilbao and San Sebastián
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
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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
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Santiago de Compostela, Porto, and Salamanca
While the first half of our Northern Spain trip was full of relaxing and beach time, in the next three days we visited three different cities and made it back to Madrid. The driving trips were all very long, so we … Continue reading
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Tagged bodega, botafumeiro, camino de santiago, cathedral, cathedral of salamanca, cathedral of santiago, catholic, catholicism, censer, clérigos tower, douro river, food, francesinha, galicia, galician, gallego, harry potter, hazing, insense, livrario lello, mar de frades, mar de frades bodega, new cathedral, northern spain, old cathedral, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pilgrims, plaza mayor, porto, portugal, portuguese, rain, reflection, robes, saint james, salamanca, santiago, santiago de compostela, sirius black, sunburn, torre dos clérigos, trip, trips, university, university of salamanca, vineyard, way of st james, weather, wine, wine tasting, winery
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Lisbon and the Ancient Roman City of Mérida
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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Tagged amphitheater, bacalao, beach, belém, belem tower, bridge, calamari, caldereta, cascaes, cascais, cathedral, christ the king, cod, dessert, discoverer, discoveries, earthquake, eu, european union, explorer, explorers, extremadura, fado, flan, food, food and circuses, hieronymites, hispania, iberian peninsula, jerónimos, lamb, lisboa, lisbon, lisbon cathedral, marquis of pombal, marquis of pombal square, melancholy, mérida, metro, migas, monastery, monsteiro dos jerónimos, monument, monument to the discoveries, music, nostalgia, padrão dos descobrimentos, pan y circo, panem et circenses, pastéis de belém, port, portugal, portuguese, pt, recording, río, river, roman, roman theater, rome, sabe ou não sabe, saudade, seismology, sevilla, tagus, tajo, tejo, toledo, torre de belém, tower of belem, treaty of lisbon, trips, tv, tv show, vasco da gama
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Sevilla
We had lots of fun in Granada, but by this point our trip was not even halfway over yet, so we left Granada at 9:30 to make the three and a half our trek to Sevilla, the capital of the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobo, alfalfa, americas, andalucía, andalusia, architecture, archivo general de indias, arena, atlantic ocean, bell, bell tower, bullfighting, bullring, buried, cádiz, cathedral, christopher columbus, cirostóbal colón, cod, colón, colonies, columbus, cuna, food, freiduría, fried, fried fish, giralda, grave, guadalquivir, hake, harbor, heat, hot, inland, islam, la alameda, la maestranza, marathon, metropol parasol, minaret, monopoly, mudéjar, muslim, new world, nightlife, pescado frito, pescaíto frito, plaza de españa, plaza de toros, port, reales alcázares, river, sevilla, seville, shrimpe, sierpes, star wars, tower, trade, trip, trips, warm, weather
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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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Tagged al-andalus, almodóvar, andalucía, andalusia, bodegas, calamari, castila-la mancha, castilla, cathedral, catholic, catholic monarchs, catholicism, cervantes, cheese, chipirones, chipirones fritos, cola cao, consuegra, córdoba, don quixote, es, film, food, granada, harry potter, iberia, iberian peninsula, islam, islamic, la mancha, la piel que habito, lisboa, lisbon, manchego, manchego cheese, mecca, mezquita, mosque, muslim, paco, pedro almodóvar, portugal, pt, religion, reyes católicos, roman, rome, salmorejo, salmorejo cordobés, sevilla, skin i live in, spain, squids, trips, vineyards, visigoth, windmills, wine
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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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