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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sabbatical trip'
Salamanca
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Salamanca · Learning Spanish, Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized
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Okay, so it does rain on the plains of Spain…
April 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Okay, so it does rain on the plains of Spain… · 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 · Comments Off on Madrid · 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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From Erg Chebi Dunes in Merzouga
March 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, travel
written by Guest Blogger SerahRose (Sharon’s daughter) I, unbelievably, got an email from my brother this afternoon. He’s traveling with my parents right now through the deserts of Morocco. Oh, yes, an email. Here’s what he says: There is a cellphone tower so we hiked to the top of a dune and I have signal […]
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