Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
Notes on and photos from our 2018 sabbatical. From preparing to doing, this is what we've done so far.
When we arrived at our hostal in Segovia (Spanish hostals are between hostels and hotels in terms of comfort, amenities, and price), the very nice lady at reception was very excited to inform us that we were just in time for “La Semana del Dorado,” or Golden Week.
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I’m just going to come out and say it: We’re failing in letting you, our fans, know what we’re doing on our European adventure. The simple fact is we’ve been busy doing stuff and seeing things at a tourist pace.
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The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, or La Mezquita as it’s more commonly known, is an encapsulation of the history of the Iberian Peninsula, brilliantly restored and preserved in one building. We knew that it was a mosque that had been turned into a cathedral, but it turns out to be so much more than that.
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Whenever the topic of our trip came up last fall and people asked how we decided to do this crazy thing, I would say, “We figured out what our ‘lottery dream’ was and then did the math.” That makes it sound easy, though, when in fact it was really, really hard to come up with a realistic budget.
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Boy howdy do I miss drip coffee.
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The monastery at El Escorial was built on the orders of Phillip II (he’s the guy who married Mary Tudor, aka “Bloody Mary”) and was completed in 1584. We didn’t have time to get out to see it on our first trip to Madrid, so it was pretty high on our list of day trips for this go-round.
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