Happy endings
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Complutense offered a closing ceremony for Reunidas students: diplomas and bands
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Jack and an Indiana U. student performed
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Afterwards, appetizers in the gardens to celebrate.
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Digital stories: The guys discussed soccer...
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...the gals, romance! The women won: all participants got T-Shirts
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Couldn't leave without seeing a Bullfight!
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Students waiting for it to begin
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The plaza was packed for the San Isidro fair
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The corrida begins with pomp and ceremony
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Overall, only one bull/fighter did well that evening.
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Students dress up for the good-bye dinner
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Vegetarian and seafood paellas!
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Great feast with great friends
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How do you eat these?
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A cordial in a "porr??n" was offered. Student found it complicated to drink
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Especially because it was easy to drip all over!
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Amy finds an easy solution!
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and well, Miky's a pro....
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Summing up: strong friendships between Spaniards and Americans. Hasta luego!
Hiking in Guadarrama Mts.
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Starting Point: Navacerrada
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Stephany and Jacalyn are prepared for the walk.
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Walking through the Navalmediana valley
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Lions and tigers and..... cows????
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Taking a picture break in the sun
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Finally, the weather was perfect on one of our excursions.
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This group fell way behind taking their fashion shots!
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Comparative study in... hiking boots?
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Anne, our guide, explains the meaning of the "chained pinetree"
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No one told us we had to cross a river!
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SPLASH! So much for dry feet!
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Wooded areas changed to plains
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Lunch time!
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We picknicked near a small waterfall and...
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...some soaked their feet in freezing water!
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Lunch "Spanish style" requires a nap afterwards!
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Taking a break along the way...
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Ahead of us, Cercedilla: our ending point. Couldn't have been a better day!
Granada 2010
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We arrived to Granada and headed uphill to see the Alhambra from the Albaicin quarters.
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The Alhambra at nightfall
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Students and mentors enjoy the views from the Mirador San Nichol??s
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Group dinner at an Arab restaurant
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Visiting a XI c Arab bath house: El Ba??uelo
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Walking through the different chambers
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Alana and Amy pose in front of the statue of Columbus and Queen Isabelle
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The Corral del Carb??n....
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... An Arab merchants' establishment for storing goods and lodgings
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The Spanish mentors, our guide, Marta and Ani
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Walking through the Alcaicer??a (the Arab market place)
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The Royal chaple where the Catholic King and Queen are buried (early XVIc)
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Finally the Alhambra complex! A walk through the Generalife gardens.
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Tom and Ali hold up the doorway!
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The Generalife palace (summer home to the Sultans)
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View of the Alhambra through the Generalife windows
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In the XIVc Nazari palaces of the Alhambra: The Golden room courtyard.
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Comares Palace with the reflecting pond.
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Ceiling of the Two Sister's room (off the Lions' courtyard)
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Views of the Albaicin quarters
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Partal palace with all its feminine beauty!
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Enjoying the views of Sierra Nevada from the fortress tower.
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These guys are literally "blown away!"
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A relaxing time in the bathhouse after a long day of sightseeing and walking.
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Moroccan mint tea break between baths and massages.
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The next morning we visited the Carthusian monastery with it's exotic baroque church.
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Last views of Granada
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The obligatory group picture to remember this great weekend
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Approaching Madrid we are welcomed back home with a rainbow.
Toledo 2010
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Entranceway fit for an Emperor! Bisagra gate entering monumental Toledo.
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Wow! Ali actually met the Emperor there (Charles V).
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Another spectacular gate: Puerta del Sol.
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Cristo de la Luz mosque. Built in 999 and still standing.
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Ara, "piercing" are not pins....I doubt the Virgen de los Alfileritos will help you there...
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Buying Toledo's famed mazapan..will it make it home?
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Is there really ham in this "jam??n de mazap??n"?
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Toledo cathedral, just before it rained.
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The women brought the sun out!
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Anyone else want a massage?
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Richie's hidden aspiration....
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Walking through the narrow streets of the Jewish quarters.
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Sephardic museum and sinagogue.
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The three TALL muskateers!
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Santa Mar??a la Blanca sinagogue (oops, we're not allowed to take pictures!)
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San Juan de los Reyes...popular church for weddings with a lot of historical importance.
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Don't jump in the river!
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Exiting Toledo by way of the San Martin bridge.
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Enjoying the views from the bridge.
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Our last memory, a stormy-sunny Toledo before us.
Spanish wine
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In the small urban winery, we learned about the winemaking process...
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the equipment used....
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and the importance of the wine barrels.
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Bottling comes next..... and then,
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the true test: First observing the color....
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then smelling the wine... and then
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well, that's obvious... tasting it!
Segovia 2010
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No walking, no playing ball, no driving... no posing! We 're in Segovia!
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Paco, our tour guide, explains the 2000 year old Roman Acueduct.
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Hand of the devil (Now we know to whom it belonged!)
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Casa de Picos along the walk up the Calle Real.
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Though some didn't bother to walk!
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Typical Segovian esgrafiado decoration on a XIVc. building.
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Juan Bravo inspires us to continue on...
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Segovia is full of Romanesque churches
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Alcazar de Segovia: inspiration to Walt Disney.
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Aurora's knight in shining armour!
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The throne room... something up there looks interesting.
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An incredible mudejar ceiling!
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Arrogance can be punished with lightening! The room tels the story...
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Military weapondry on display.
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Ani is about to tell the dollar story! But, was it worth a dollar?
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Next stop...to the top of the tower.
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It was worth the hike, for the views of Segovia were beautiful.
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The group posing in the SUN! What happened to the horrible rain forecast?
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What comes up, must go down..Alexandra, spining round.
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Best way to defeat the cold: a typical Segovian meal of white beans and...
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... suckling pig!
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Hope this pig didn't have hoof and "ear" disease, because Chris ate the whole thing (earwax and all)!
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Segovia's Plaza Mayor.
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Bachelor party prank... guess who was getting married?
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Segovia's cathederal: one of the last gothic cathedrals built.
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After discussing San Frutos' interest in page turning, we visit the interior.
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The cloister belonged to the previous Romanesque cathedral.
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San Justo: a Romanesque church with incredible mural painting.
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Careful, Amal's sleeping sickness is contagious....
Extremadura 2010
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Boys will be boys.... On our way to Extremadura they preferred soccer to coffee!
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Roman M??rida: entering the amphitheater.
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Our guide Marco, explained the structure of the arena and the games celebrated there.
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16,000 spectators could enjoy the games
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Waiting for Russell Crow to come out in this gladiator gig.
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Lions and tigers and students, oh my! (Animal den)
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Free from harm of the wild animals!
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Next, the roman theater. 6,000 Romans spent hours watching plays....
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Spaniards still do, in the summer classical theater festival.
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Merida wouldn't be complete without the Roman circus and the chariot races.
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But to get to M??rida, one first needed to cross the Roman bridge!
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Roman engineering also provided incredible structures such as the Milagros aqueduct.
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We also had a chance to see Moneo's museum building of Roman art.
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In the crypt we found Roman houses and burials...
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..and in the main gallery, statues (these two look so life-like!)...
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....and a variety of artifacts such as mosaics.
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Incluiding an enormous one with chariot race drivers.
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In the evening, we reached C??ceres.
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Marco discussed its inhabitants, arquitecture and history.
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And popular beliefs such as rubbing Saint Peter's feet for a desired wedding (note no one is touching him!)
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Rituals weren't just told...we presenced a Stations of the Cross procession.
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Leaving the old quarters at our feet, we enjoyed a group dinner.
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Students and Spanish mentors had more than their fill of food and laughter!
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Gee, most of us slept at night but Amal continued right on to Trujillo!
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Trujillo, birthplace to many conquistadors of the new world.
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Hernan Pizarro's palace in the main square
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Walking along the outer walls of the city.
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Ani....why did you make me wear this ridiculous rain poncho?
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Why don't storks bring babies to Spain?
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Students listen atentively to explanations of "new world" trivia related to Trujillo families.
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The beautiful church not only protects us from the rain, but has a curious soccer insignia on it's belltower.
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They never told us it would hail!
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Slightly dry, our guide Marco completes the tour at the Pizarro family home.
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And back to the rain with our fashion ponchos to return to our nice, dry and warm homes in Madrid!
Orientation spring 2010
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Our first activity was a social one on Jan 27, 2010.
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Students had the opportunity to meet Miky (housing coordinator- first person on right)....
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meet fellow program participants and Spanish mentors.
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During the orientation period we had a number of university tours (this is UCM)
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practical and academic meetings, language workshops and lectures.
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Throughout the two week period, we also had lots of cultural activities.
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Tour of old Madrid included old quarters...
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emblematic plazas....
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market places,
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discussion on famous people of Madrid, such as the patron, Saint Isidro....
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the old and new city halls,
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and traditional shops.
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Another day we met at the Royal Palace.
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Fernando explained the Plaza de Oriente and the ecuestrian statue...
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and the palace itself (including an interior tour).
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We also discussed the history of Madrid's new cathedral
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And enjoyed the views of the Casa de Campo.
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On Feb 3rd we saw a more modern part of Madrid (XVIII c.) with its fountains.
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And Spanish painting at the Prado Museum.
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Contemporary Spanish art at the Reina Sof??a museum...ending with tapas with Spaniards.
Traditional Shops in Madrid
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Our visit to traditional shores started a the Riojano pastry shop.
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After viewing all the delicious sweets and the antique furnishings...
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we had breakfast at Jacinto Benavente's hang out.
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The tour included a candy store (la Violeta), a fan and umbrella store (Casa de Diego) ,...
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... more pastry shops (el Pozo, Casa Mira) and a cup of broth at the deli /restaurant Lhardy.
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Nacho tried on a cape in the only cape store left in Spain: Capas Sese??a.
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We saw a traditional nightclub (Villa Rosa) where an Almodovar movie was filmed.
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We discussed old taverns (Casa Labra, el Abuelo, Cervecer??a Alemana, and the oldest, Casa Alberto).
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And of course the origin of the tapa ...samples included!
Escorial-Valle de los Caidos
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On November 18, we drove up to San Lorenzo el Escorial to visit the monastery.
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We saw the palace of Phillip II, the pantheon and other areas of this inmense XVIth century complex.
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Stairwell in the monastery section: a lost dog?
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The Kings' courtyard. Where is the golden brick? (hint..it got cut off in the pic!)
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Enjoying the brief period of sunshine outside the building.
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Entranceway to the gardens.
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Escorial gardens
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Richie overlooking the scenery below
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Sculptured hedges into mazes.
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A mouthfull or two. Picknick time in the Valley of the Fallen.
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Strawberry tree (madro??o) loaded with fruit.
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What do they taste like? Peach, strawberry, cough syrup or a I don't know flavour?
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Heading to see the basilica where Franco and civil war victims were buried.
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The basilica is tunneled into the mountain and quite somber, to say the least.
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Scrunched back in the car, we go back to Madrid.
Cordoba-Sevilla fall09
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First stop in C??rdoba. Even the hostal had a typical interior courtyard.
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Julio Romero de Torres museum
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Aperitivo time with mile-high tortillas
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Calleja de las flores passageway
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The great mosque's old minarete (now a bell tower)
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Inside the former mosque was forest of columns
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A detail of one of the cupulas leading to the mexuar
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Walking through the famous Jewish quarters (Maimonides statue)
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XIV century sinagogue
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XII century house in the Jewish quarters
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Farmer Nacho goes to work
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C??rdoba in the evening (Roman bridge and cathedral-mosque)
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Night walk in C??rdoba to the Cristo de los Faroles plaza
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Royal alcazares of C??rdoba: traffic jam going up the tower
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We made it!
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Roman mosaics in the civil marriage court
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Old baths of the alcazar
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Walking through the gardens: vegetation and fountains
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The guys meet a siren
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Hail Nacho!
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Ending our visit in the gardens
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Next stop: Sevilla. The Giralda tower at the cathedral.
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The cathedral's altar piece: the largest in the world!
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Burial of Christopher Columbus.
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What am I supposed to look at? (mannerist chapter room)
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The walk up the 36 ramps of the tower was worth it.
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Especially for the views of Sevilla
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Torre del Oro next to the river
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Looks like a fun party on that boat!
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We decide to have our own boat ride
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Actually, it wasn't much of a party....
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...but the views were nice!
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Royal Alcazar of Sevilla (a series of palaces from different time periods)
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Incredible XIV century palace in the mudejar style
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Entrance to the Embassador room
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Mar??a Padilla gothic bath
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Here too, the gardens were impressive.
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Sara doing "the peacock strut"
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Amazed in the maze
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Hand painted tiles in the gothic palace
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Walking through Santa Cruz neighborhood
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Maria Luisa Park and the 1929 Iberoamerican expo.
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Plaza de Espa??a
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Last stop...some more yummy food (typical fish fry)
Galicia 2009
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Madrid students take the night train to the far northwest corner of the penninsula: Galicia
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Madrid met Salamanca students with a foggy view of Santiago de Compostela in the early morning.
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We meet "the Marias" in the park
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Quick stop to at the traditional marketplace on the way to the cathedral
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The enormous incense burner (botafumeiro) was swung during the pilgrims' mass in the cathedral
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Ever sat on a cathedral roof top? We did!
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The night greeted us with over-aged tunos
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The searing towers of the cathedral.
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Vist to A Coru??a: Hercules tower. The only Roman lighthouse still in use.
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Stephany with "Herc"
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High-low
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Boy are we getting dizzy going uuuuppppp
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The views on the top were spectacular
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Freetime meant beach time! Some even went swimming!
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Yeah...but it was soooo c-c-cold afterwards!
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The park dates the picture: October 3rd
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The Humor Plaza. These girls met their man.
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A pink panther look alike?
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Maria Pita plaza...the heart of A Coru??a dedicated to the woman who fought the pirates.
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Glass city is A Coru??a's nick name....
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San Antonio fortress.
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So...what wish do I get if I see the islands with my handplaced here?
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Santa Mar??a, a XIII church in the old quarters.
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A Coru??a's port...a parting view going back to Santiago.
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Look mom...we're actually eating octopus! (Santiago)
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Nothing like a good ol' witch's brew to chase the Galician tapas down.
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Are you sure this is ok to drink?
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Marina inspecting the bagpipe player's technique
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Whoa.... behold two new Galicians!
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Rias Baixas: Boat ride down the Arousa inlet.
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O'Grove: a fishing town on the west coast
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Viewing a mussle crop from the windows found at the bottom of the boat.
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Eating the mussles were far more interesting!
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Shooting seagulls (with a camera...!)
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Seafood fair in O'Grove
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Ani was in heaven between a lobster and a crab!
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But more heavenly were these finger lobsters!
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Paellas for a big crowd.
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Little children dressed in traditional clothing.
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Dancing regional dances while we ate at the fair.
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Combarro: a traditional fishing village.
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Posing next to typical "horreos" (grain silos)
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Madrid students were dropped off in Pontevedra while Salamanca students drove back home.
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Jacalyn sheltering Valle Incl??n from the rain.
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Made it back to Santiago to catch our train...but first, just one last seafood meal...
Salamanca 2009
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Our first excursion is to the beautiful city of Salamanca with its famous Plaza Mayor.
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We walked to the Casa de Conchas...
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...where we enjoyed overlooking the interior courtyard.
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At the XVI century University fa??ade, Richie had some difficulties finding the frog.
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In the afternoon, some Salamanca students joined us to see the Due??as convent.
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Peering figures and yummy cookies upon leaving.
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Next stop: Salamancas' two cathedrals. The old one (XIII century)...
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...and the new one (XVI- century)
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Though some parts were definitely 20th century! (unless an austronaut time-traveled)
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We were able to go up to the catwalks and towers for incredible views of the building and the city.
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The Salamanca tour ended on the Roman bridge and references to Lazarrillo de Tormes.
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The next day, we went rural! Grabbed those helmets and....
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...went horse-back riding through a bull-raising farm.
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No bull, but we actually did learn about bull fighting. And what do you think of the Jacalyn's outfit?
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Richie got jealous and couldn't wait for photoshop miracles!
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Sara sees whether Richie learned the lesson well.
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A great day ends with a great meal. The paella was surely welcomed
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Buen apetito!
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An image worth a thousand words. Just like Salamanca.