Spain
Travel Adventures to Spain
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Our Excellent Return to the Sea – Final
Transition Day Today is Saturday the 19th, and the whole ship is in transition. About 95% of the passengers have disembarked as they only booked a seven-day cruise ending in Civaateccia. Right now, the whole ship feels very empty as there are only ten cabins,…
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Our Excellent Return to the Sea – Part 4
It’s been six days since I last wrote anything about our trip, which is unusual for a three-week vacation. I always bring my laptop with me, and I try to write a little every day, especially in the early morning when Barb is still asleep.…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Final
The Technology More so than on any other trip that we’ve made, the technology has played a more significant role than on most trips. Just the fact that I write this travel blog requires that I have some technology with me such as my laptop…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 3
A Day at the Beach As our time in our house rental is coming to a close, we had plans to make a day trip to the north coast for a change of scenery. We had so far been focusing on in-land destinations and since…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 2
We Have Sheep At the top of my Part 1 blog update I had included a photo of some sheep on the road. We’ve now seen the sheep many times and we’ve discovered that the farm next to us has the flock of sheep. Early…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 1
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 12 years since our last trip to Spain. Barb and I have so many good memories of that trip back in 2003 and it’s surprising that it’s taken us this long to plan our 2nd Spanish Adventure. Our…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Final
The Rock, Cats, Monkeys and Nutella Final Week: We left Sevilla after picking up our rental car from the train station and headed south towards Ronda where we would be staying for the final week. About halfway during our two and a half hour drive,…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 5
Of Ham and Football Day 10 (cont): We had a few hours to kill before heading out to the football game so we took the opportunity to get our laundry done. We usually end up doing this boring (but necessary) task about once a week…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 4
So What’s Wrong with Spain, Anyway? Over dinner the other night, Barb and I were talking about our choice to travel to Spain and that relatively few other people that we know had express interest in going to Spain as well. As far as Europe…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 3
To Tel Aviv and Back Day 4: It is now our third day in Barcelona and Barb still doesn’t have her luggage. The thrill of “winging it” has pretty much worn off now and Barb’s morale continues to decline on an hourly basis. What she…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 2
The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plane. Good News! When we were checking in at the Air Canada counter in Vancouver, we were told that we would be upgraded to business class on the flight to Toronto. Frankly, this was surprising as one…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Spanish Adventure – Part 1
So another year has passed and we find ourselves again sitting at the airport boarding gate waiting for our flight to start our trip to Spain. I find that this is really the best part of the trip when all of the work of planning…
