Tag: spain
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Hola, Tenerife!
After Saya testing negative the day before a 7am departure, we hurriedly packed our bags for Tenerife. Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands, and hosts tourists year around on the southern tip of the island. While the kids draped themselves across me for the flight, I meditated on the fact that an all-inclusive…
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Saya’s Firsts in San Sebastian, Spain
The most anticipated part of our three day weekend was Saya taking her first flight. I tried to quiet my anxious feelings by pinpointing exactly what I was nervous about. I recognized that we wouldn’t be able to get off a flight the way you can do with a bus or the tube, but that…
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Malaga, Spain
02Mar2019: Our last full day of vacation and Corey was set on seeing all the sites circled on our visitor’s map. We did a quick lap at Mercado Central for a breakfast of fruit and juice. Then we were lured to– you guessed it– churros con chocolate at Casa Aranda. It’s probably not appropriate to say…
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A day of driving: Conil & Ronda
01Mar2019: I planned two stops on the way to Malaga. I wanted to see at least one beach along the Costa de la Luz as I’d read they were much more untouched than those along the more developed Costa del Sol. Conil is a long stretch of beach with very fine sand. Shells are scattered all…
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Cadiz and Almost Carnaval
28Feb2019: I planned a stop in Cadiz because the city’s Carnaval celebration was supposed to start today, and Cadiz is famous for its festivities. However, we soon learned that the weekend is when the real fun begins and so we wouldn’t see much as we were leaving Friday. Oops. We did end up learning about Dia…
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