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Sweating Through Southern Spain

Jul 11, 2019
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Holy Toledo The drive to Toledo from Zaragoza is long and tedious through mostly flat lands that give way to urban sprawl around Madrid which…

Over the Pyrenees into Spain

Jul 4, 2019
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Climbing Over the Pyrenees We leave Albi and drive west toward the Pyrenees. Today is the first day of our entire trip (actually, the only…

Castel d’Escales in Catalonia

Aug 26, 2015
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I begin my six-week sojourn in Europe with a vacation from a vacation—a one-week stay at the evocative Castel d’Escales in Catalonia, Spain. I am…