Tag: Spain
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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Photos from Santa María la Real de La Almudena
Madrid’s cathedral is pretty new as those things go. Consecrated in 1993 by John Paul II, construction on Santa María la Real de La Almudena began in 1883, with Madrid becoming an bishopric in 1884 (later an archbishopric in 1964).
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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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