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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 · Comments Off on Sitges beauties · 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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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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Salud!

March 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Itinerary, Learning Spanish, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing

I did it! I’m feeling very proud of myself this morning! I managed two “real” things using only Spanish – and the best part – I used a verb! Who knows if I used the correct form, but I succeeded in asking my homestay mother if she would wash our laundry today and I asked […]

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