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Entries from April 14th, 2008

The doctor says, ?Como se llama…?

April 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Learning Spanish, Sabbatical trip

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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Salamanca

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Learning Spanish, Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

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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Okay, so it does rain on the plains of Spain…

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

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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Madrid

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized

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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Toto, we’re not in Spain anymore!

April 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, travel

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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