Spain Travel Blogs - Page 4

At just about this time last year, I was away on vacation. It was a 2-week long vacation with my older sister, Niezl, and close college friend and work colleague, Elzbieta, in Spain.I always have the intention that when I visit Spain, I will look up my ancestral background - a kind of reverse f…

Sevilla is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain & the home of Carlos de Tuga del TravBuddy, my most gracious host.  Sevilla is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, the people of the city a…

This will be the first time ive been to spain so it was pretty cool.. but the bad thing was i had to go to the Charles de gaulle airport in paris which i have had bad experiences with in the past.. well safe to say that it did not dissapoint me on my assesment of it being the crappiest airport ive …

Today I woke with the best thought in mind...I would visit all of the markets in town.  Too bad it was Sunday.  After two of the markets were closed I gave up and walked to the Olympic Stadium, which was nice but really just another stadium.  From there I walked up a very high hill t…

Yesterday evening I decide to hangout a little bit so I self invite to a friends house for dinner and...finished at 2-3AM he he he but this morning I woke up at 7.30AM great!!! If tonight I'm gonna sleep early I will avoid jetlag!!! (Pity Eiko, she can't imagine how I am when I'm not tired ;) ) Th…

i contacted tirso long long long ago - sometime in march i think - that if ever i am in madrid - i would ask for his help to tour me around the city - now why him of all the people in madrid from travbuddy? because he is the most active! hahahahahahahahahahai dont have much time for internet when i…

Sometimes dreams come true. It is even more fascinating when a dream comes true one did not even have :D In my case that does mean that I took part in a photo shooting of the beautiful Spanish island of La Palma - for free (Thanks, chief - gracias!).The prologue in brief. I left home early in the m…

I promised people this blog would be posted a while ago but it’s proven more difficult to write than I thought.  I think you’ll understand why.  Please forgive the potential lack of polish on this entry.  It's still a little tough to focus on the whole thing.Our next stop after C…

I celebrated my 30th birthday by taking my 1st trip to Europe! 2 nights in Amsterdam, 8 nights cruising to Brussels, Paris, Santiago de Compostela, Lisbon, Tangier, and 2 nights in Barcelona. Cheers!

ok, as i was telling myself to move on - "get over it lauro!" its been more than two weeks since your vacation - its time to think of some other things. yes its been over two weeks since our spain/portugal roadtrip - backpacking - journey - trip - tour - whatever you call it. yeah im starting to go…

Maybe the best metro for summer time (and for some people it doesn't matter which season is it now). You are taking ur towel getting in (but first - remember - buy ur ticket! :D:D:D) and you are riding down the hill to the beach. Then you are getting off, to the street level and ... there is the se…

Looking back on the first 3 months of my stay in Barcelona, Spain...      

Well, this is it.Last day.Sigh...How did this happen so fast?As always, time flies by and vacation is over far to soon!Weather was as bad as yesterday this morning, so we didn't even think about going to the beach or hang out at the pool.We also had to check out at 12. Shuttle bus to the airport wo…

The winners use to cross the lake (2000 meters) in 25 min, we can do it in less than 30 min, but we spend 2 hours...Guess why!

The Catedral de Sevilla is a totally unbelievable Gigantic, Colossal & Massive expression in stone of Gargantuan post-Reconquest confidence, wealth & over the top “My Church is Bigger & Better than Your Church Bravado”.  Catedral de Sevilla is the third largest church in Europe…