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Granada First Impressions

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Granada is an easy city to love.  Here are my first impressions. We are living in Moclin about one hour away from Granada.  The next time we visit Granada (by bus), I am going to buy some of these teas.  There are so many to choose from though! The first time we saw these balloon …

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Spanish Hospitality and Symbols of Anzac Day

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Updated April 2018. On 25th April, 2012, we were settling into our House sitting job in Spain.  It was in a mountain village of the Andalusia district near Granada. Officially this village was home to five hundred people, although we saw only one-fifth of that number and most of those were the elderly monarchs of …

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Madrid Street Entertainers

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Madrid is an exciting place to be.  At night people flood the streets, while musicians and human statues entertain at any time of day. Here are some of my favourites!       This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License                     …

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AVE – Renfe fast train

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Today we travelled from Barcelona to Madrid by Renfe AVE fast train.  After walking half an hour to Barcelona Sants Train Station from our apartment, we grabbed a quick breakfast of coffee, orange juice, ham and cheese roll and pastry for 9 euros at the Station Cafe. We presented the tickets that I had printed …

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Squatter’s Art In Barcelona

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The artwork on this building, which was just down the road from where we are staying in Barcelona, was created by the squatters living within.  The authorities allow them to stay in the building, because they run community art courses, from the building.  Their contributions to the community and this awesome albino tree-octopus make the …

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Fat Tire Bicycle Tours, Barcelona

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We really like doing bicycle tours.  You can cover a lot of territory, meet fun people, and you can usually manage to get a few photographs as well.  We chose Fat Tire Bicycle Tours (22 Euro for 4 hours) because they had great reviews and you could just rock up on the day without having …

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I love the long haul flights

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Usually I am filled with dread when I enter a plane for a long haul flight.  But this time I actually felt quite calm about the more than 30 hours of travel ahead of us. Our first stop was Brisbane Airport where I took the opportunity to charge the netbook and check emails. We flew …

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Happiness Highlights – Travel and Home

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I have been reading Britt’s Monday Post from In Pursuit of Happiness blog.  Even though she had been to the funeral of her close friend’s dad and car mechanical problems stranded her and Jared overnight in a convenience store car park, she still found positives in her life, that made her happy. That started me …

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