 | two sides to every story...
2009-09-10, Madrid, Spain. By: jpacelli | | To continue from my last story, I was talking to a friend in the program who also goes to UCLA and took a few classes on Velasquez and Goya and said that our guide was telling the pro government side ... |
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| Madrid!
2009-09-10, Madrid, Spain. By: jpacelli | | Madrid moves with an energy that borders on chaos. The people talk a million miles an hour, cars drive where ever they like almost, and men are handing out fliers like Bruin Walk on a bad day. The fir... |
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 | Ole!!!
2008-10-07, Madrid, Spain. By: BrettDille | | After a "slight" detour, we are back on the road. As promised, we will continue to update the travel journal and share our journey with you. Unfortunately, due to the economic crisis (aka our budget) ... |
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 | Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Barcelona and Ibiza
2008-10-03, Madrid, Spain. By: juchem | | Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the count... |
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 | Madrid...as seen from my hostel bed
2008-07-28, Madrid, Spain. By: mariat | | So Ibiza essentially slayed me. The last night I was there we went and saw David Guetta at Pacha, my favorite dj. I was expecting it to be the night that ruled all other nights, but sadly, it was a li... |
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 | The first entry...
2008-01-29, Madrid, Spain. By: hanna8712 | | I have so far spent a week in a foreign country living with a new family and I cannot complain. As can be imagined many things are different here, but that is to be expected and enjoyed. For instanc... |
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 | IS it possible to over heat?
2007-08-20, Madrid, Spain. By: chloedunn | | Hola from Madrid,
Sowe headed to Seville on my birthday (the 18th) and it was a fun time on the train. Once we arrived and got off the train we were hit with a heat that was unrelenting (sp?) and ... |
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 | Can´t belive we found each other?
2007-08-17, Madrid, Spain. By: chloedunn | | Hola all, well my time in SA ended and I was not ready to leave, who knew I would feel that way? Not me that´s for sure. It was truely such an amazing experience and the other volunteers as well as lo... |
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 | The Gift of Time
2007-06-07, Madrid, Spain. By: mdmather | | What a wonderful day we had yesterday. It was a day full of surprises and a reminder of what a wonderful gift Broadway has given to us through this Clergy Renewal Grant from Lilly. We all slept in y... |
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| Chocolate, Tiredness, and the Garden of Delights
2007-06-06, Madrid, Spain. By: mdmather | | What a beginning to our travels! Barb and Kirk Taylor gave us a ride to the airport...first we stopped at Le Peep in downtown Indy for a going away breakfast. Thank goodness we did. I realized I ha... |
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| 5-24-07
2007-05-16, Madrid, Spain. By: awood3 | | First full day in spain
well of course the weather is the same cold and rainy. some much for the summer weather i packed for.
today we traveled to the museo del prado which is a art museum tha... |
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| In Spain
2007-05-16, Madrid, Spain. By: awood3 | | Well it is finally wednesday and my flight to spain felt like it took forever. i did arrive and thankfully i have my bags, which is funny because there are about 13 people here that dont have their l... |
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 | Much better!
2007-05-31, Madrid, Spain. By: reneecita | | I finally got some sleep last night! That made a world of difference as I expected it would. We got to bed at 1am, and woke up at 12pm! We were exhuasted, as you can imagine. Today we toured the cit... |
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| The city that never sleeps...
2007-05-30, Madrid, Spain. By: reneecita | | Well, I made it in one piece! The flight went smoothly and without incident. The girls and I had a good time together in our travels. Today was frustrating when we had to go to find our hotel though. ... |
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 | Last trip to Madrid!
2007-04-20, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Ok, I'm not going to lie. I'm not sure how good this is going to be because I literally just wrote this wonderful journal entry, it was fun and witty and had lots of good stuff in it and I was literal... |
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 | Madrid
2007-03-14, Madrid, Spain. By: jake | | First stop Madrid! We were damn excited to say the least. After a bittersweet plane ride, we were ready to drink some vino, and relax for a while. Our rusty spanish proved to be cumulatively similar t... |
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 | the beginning with Mindi & Jeff
2006-07-09, Madrid, Spain. By: rajban | | So after traveling around on my own for a bit (Sevilla, Tarifa, Alicante, Valencia) I met up with Mindi and Jeff in Madrid. This was the starting point of our trip together, of which unfortunately the... |
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| Wonderful Saturday in Madrid
2007-02-24, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Hello!! So this is a little late in coming but last Saturday I spend most of the day in Madrid. I went with friends from here, Jacqueline and Megan. We arrived and went to Puerta del Sol which is one ... |
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 | TGI Friday's in Madrid
2007-02-08, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Hello all!! Sorry it's been a little while. I have been swamped with school work here for the last couple of weeks. I wanted to post a couple of updates though but more will be coming after this weeke... |
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| Museums in Madrid
2007-02-04, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Hello! It's Sunday already here and I'm spending the day relaxing and getting and getting some stuff done so I wanted to post about my trip to Madrid yesterday. Maggie and I went to Madrid to go see E... |
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| Ice skating in Madrid!
2007-01-25, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Yes that is right, ice skating in Madrid. Ok the original reason that I went to Madrid last Thursday was because in addition to ice skating we were planning on going to Friday's for dinner, unfortunat... |
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| Madrid!!
2007-01-17, Madrid, Spain. By: Whitm528 | | Ok, so I was definitely supposed to write on Monday, however due to putting pictures up taking longer than I expected and a few slight computer problems this is the first chance that I have been able ... |
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 | I'm in Madrid!
2006-10-12, Madrid, Spain. By: mlinde | | Okay, I have to make this short because I have to leave for the bus station in about 20 minutes. But, as the headline says, I'm in Madrid and I love it here...maybe more that Sevilla (at least as a p... |
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 | Bullfight!!!
2006-08-22, Madrid, Spain. By: kieron | | I have wanted to go and see a bullfight for quite some time now, and was prepared to go with an open mind, "When in Rome...", right?
It's going to be difficult to put it into words...the fight was ... |
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| Four days in Madrid...
2006-08-22, Madrid, Spain. By: kieron | | Well I arrived in Madrid after a terrible 14 hour flight from Chile...the sleeping pills I bought over the counter in Santiago didn't work (which I should have known) and after taking them I was too s... |
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 | I'm back
2006-08-21, Madrid, Spain. By: rajban | | Ha! I'm back at posting once again. For a while during travelling it was tough to find computers that would let me download my photos, and I just got lazy, which meant not posting for a long time.
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| hmmm
2006-08-02, Madrid, Spain. By: rajban | | ok guys, i know it´s been awhile since ive added anything. however, the internet has been real expensive outside of spain and not many places let me upload pics where ive been. also, i haven´t been to... |
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 | treeing the town in madrid
2006-07-27, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | Since my return from Paris, I have mostly stuck around Madrid. These past two weeks have been most enjoyable doing so. Although I have loved all my weekend getaways, there is a joy in not having to pa... |
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 | paris
2006-07-21, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | This weekend I have decided to remain in Madrid and enjoy the city I’ve begun to call home one last time with everyone. However, I have to backtrack to last weekend in order to stay up to date.
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| san fermín (running with the bulls)
2006-07-09, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | Because I am so behind in posting about my trip, I am also adding a post about this past week and weekend. Being that last Tuesday was the Forth of July, it called for special celebration among the Am... |
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 | delayed report from my tour of andalucía
2006-07-08, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | Where to begin? Last weekend (by the time I am able to post this online, it will have been two weekends ago… oops!) I saw a LOT of Spain. Because I have been skimping out on my entries, I will attempt... |
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 | Israel and After
2006-07-09, Madrid, Spain. By: sloughj1 | | The journey has been a great one thus far and still it continues. I have recently finished staff debrief in Tel Aviv, Israel and will be making my way back to the states in a few weeks. Currently, I... |
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 | city of scams
2006-06-03, Madrid, Spain. By: walfredo | | We got to Madrid yesterday late afternoon. After we unloaded at our hostal and went to the market...got some dinner and walked over to Parque del buen reitro. It is a 300 acre park with a monument f... |
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| me encanta el sur
2006-06-26, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | This past weekend I ventured back down to southern Spain to stay in Málaga with my former exchange student, Maren, and her boyfriend, Petter. I lived with Maren when I was twelve, and this will be th... |
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| um beijo!
2006-06-19, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | I had an absolutely wonderful weekend in beautiful Lisboa, Portugal. As mentioned, my friend Manel was a better host than I could ask for. I arrived in Lisbon around 3:00pm, and Manel was waiting for ... |
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 | barcelona
2006-06-15, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | I am sitting in the internet café about to leave for the airport. I haven’t had much time to write, but my mom made a good point in that I should write about one trip before I embark on my next. Barce... |
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 | Lay-off (over)
2006-06-13, Madrid, Spain. By: aw80sa | | So, two days ago Laura and I set off alone once again to pick up her passport in Rabat. We spent the night in Marrakech at a huge mansion, owned by an Irish guy, before heading off to Rabat at 4am. We... |
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 | Prado y Gayo y Woo woo Mayo
2006-05-25, Madrid, Spain. By: dva216 | | Walked to Museo Nacional de Prado and took an English tour through the Art Exhibit. It was really really fascinating. The main artists we followed were Gayo and Valasquez...their paintings really i... |
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| nuevo update
2006-06-08, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | I have been very busy but realize I’m in much need of an update. Last week I began work at AMREF and am really enjoying it thus far. The first few days I mostly talked with my supervisors, read up on ... |
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| tengo otro trabajo y estoy bronceada
2006-05-29, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | Cadiz was wonderful. The city is beautiful and the beaches are lovely. There were a few interesting adventures (for example, the place we stayed!) but we still managed to have a really great time. I c... |
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| ¡vamos a la playa!
2006-05-25, Madrid, Spain. By: lizzdailey | | So yesterday at work, Bryan and I were told that we wouldn’t be needed until June. Thus far we hadn’t really been doing much, and of what we were doing, we were given very little direction. It was qui... |
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 | On Granada
2006-05-16, madrid, Spain. By: bolioboy | | Up very early Tuesday we took a train to Granada, having recently changing our travel plan for efficiency and to add Granada. A beautiful city, we were greeted with her hot humid arms. The hostel was... |
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 | On the Festival of San Isidor
2006-05-15, madrid, Spain. By: bolioboy | | Sleeping in, I eventually awoke and went to Starbucks and wrote for several hours, and then I typed it up and loaded photos for several more hours. After that I sat on the front porch of my hostel an... |
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