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Entries from April 30th, 2008

On our own again!

April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Children, Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, travel

Well, yesterday grandbaby and daughter and her friend left for home. We hope that they had a great day getting home. They had to get up quite early. We did find them a taxi! Here’s some news for travelers to Barcelona with young children: if you don’t have a car seat, you can only call […]

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Sitges beauties

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Children, Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, Uncategorized

We’re having a wonderful time with our daughter and grandbaby in tow! The world is very different with a toddler about! The Spanish love babies and feel free to look and exclaim at your baby. We had observed this in the other towns we were in; and it’s very interesting to have our observations confirmed. […]

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The beautiful sea of Barcelona!

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

Only a quick posting today as the Wifi café we found has a terrible connection. Access to free wifi is next to nil; and when you find it (only one place in our huge neighborhood), it doesn’t work so well. Hubby and I think that this is probably likely to be the result of Spain’s […]

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Barcelona and family!

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

Hola! We have succeeded in moving ourselves to Barcelona from Salamanca! It took all day Saturday and 3 trains. One 2 1/2 hour from Salamanca to Madrid, then a 1/2 short local hop to the other train station and then the high speed train to Barcelona. That was another 3 hours; it would have been […]

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Salamanca Part 2

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

Goodness, tomorrow is our last day of classes here and I’ve hardly posted anything about Salamanca. I can only blame being ill. We’ve gone to classes, eaten lunch and had long afternoon naps trying to get better. You also have to plan things around siesta time. Almost everything but a few small shops for newspapers […]

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