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. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sabbatical trip'
Sitges beauties
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Children, Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, Uncategorized
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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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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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