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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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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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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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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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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Well, what a busy few days! Although I want to put up a posting about our great day trip with the school to the towns of Segovia and Avila over the weekend; tonight I write about my being sick… A couple of weeks ago in Madrid, hubby and I had a bad head cold. Hubby’s [...]
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Here it is Thursday, and I haven’t managed to put up pictures of Salamanca as yet! Unfortunately, hubby and I have been recovering from really bad colds and it has been pouring cats and dogs all week. I thought I was getting better but Tuesday night laid me low again. So we have gone to [...]
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We arrived on Saturday to Salamanca via a really nice bus ride from Madrid. The trip took about 2 1/2 hours and was lovely. We say some amazing ridges of wind turbines. We are settled in our homestay and have had two days of Spanish classes. We are meeting some nice folks and like this [...]
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Tomorrow we are off on the next step of our journey. We check out at noon, and hang about til we taxi to the bus station and we’re off to Salamanca. We are enrolled in Spanish language school in Salamanca for the next two weeks starting Monday. We’ve heard that our homestay is a couple [...]
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What an exciting week in Morocco! We met our son and daughter-in-law at the airport in Marrakech on Monday night. The first excitement was our son (fluent in French and a very important part of the week in terms of finding things out and our comfort) had to negotiate for a taxi. After a [...]
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