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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Barcelona and family!
April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Barcelona and family! · Sabbatical trip, Uncategorized
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Salamanca Part 2
April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Salamanca Part 2 · 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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Salamanca
April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Salamanca · 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 · 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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