Spain
Mar 10th, 2010
Whimisical Gargoyles
From the Washington Post article on Salamanca:
We thought we’d been tricked. After studying the leaves and vines carved around the west door of Salamanca’s New Cathedral for 10 minutes, we still couldn’t locate the astronaut, the monkey with an ice cream cone or the stork carrying a branch in its beak. We decided that the purported carvings were urban legends, most likely concocted as a joke on gullible tourists.
Gargoyles are some of my favorite things to photograph, so you can bet I’ll be looking for these when we are in Salamanca in a few months.
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Feb 15th, 2010
Spain Itinerary
Well I finally have our itinerary for Spain all worked out. You can see it over there to the right. It involves three flights and a night train, but it works.
Now it’s time to start nailing down things like hotels, and a rental car. Can’t believe it’s only three months away. Time to get excited.
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Jan 6th, 2010
Planning on Spain
I’m knee deep in planning our upcoming trip to Spain and finding it all very difficult. This country frustrates all my attempts to plan out a logical route. It doesn’t help that we are flying into and out of Madrid which lies smack in the middle of the country.
The distance between some places makes some travel times prohibitive. I’ve all ready had to make the decision that Santiago de Compostela is just to far away to logically fit in. That does frees up a couple of days for other places though.
Also, my parents are meeting us there for the first week or so, which means I have to coordinate with their schedules as well.
I have never had this much trouble trying to map out a route before. If anybody has any suggestions, please feel free to pass them along.
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