Making Excuses
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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Category: Dispatches
La Mezquita: Cultural Crossroads in Córdoba, Spain
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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Doing the Math: Expenses for Weeks 1-4
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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Coffee Talk
Boy howdy do I miss drip coffee.
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Day trip from Madrid: El Escorial
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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A Wine About Spain
Whilst choosing between the €4 bottle and the €3 bottle at our local supermercado, I noticed that on the back label of a Crianza I was interrogating it mentioned the use of tempranillo grapes. What the what? After a mad dash to Google and few glasses of this Crianza-tempranillo later, we learned the following.
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Our Introduction to Local Traditions in Madrid
Madrid has a lot of great local customs, and on Saturday we decided to try several of them out as[…]
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Our Place in Madrid
Greetings from our tiny house! We have settled in nicely to our Airbnb digs for the month. Would you like a tour? It won’t take long.
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Estamos in Madrid
Two connections and twenty three hours after departing our temporary quarters in DC (Petworth -> Dulles via the 5A -> Reykjavík -> London -> Madrid), we arrived at our apartment in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid.
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