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Settling into to Granada, Spain

3/25/2010 "How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!" Ernest Hemingway, American novelist. There would be much to see and do in this historic and beautiful city in the coming weeks. But now I share one of my...

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Málaga, Spain

3/24/2010 Our plane  landed in Málaga, Spain on March 19, since then we have traveled to Ronda, Cadiz, Tarifa, and Gibraltar and now back to our beginning. Málaga is home to roughly a half-million people, about 100 km (62 mi) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about...

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The next road to Gibraltar

3/23/2010 The next road from Tarifa, Spain, led to Gibraltar, which is more famously referred to as the Rock of Gibraltar. Did you know it is under British control? One minute you are driving along in Spain and the next, passing through British customs. The history is...

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Argentina

Parks, Parks, Everywhere a Park

In this massive city filled with active avenues, cars, buses  and people, there are an amazing number of parks and plazas. Our apartment is located very near one of the nicest. There is something there for everyone.* Parque Tres de Febrero, also known as the Bosques...

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Plácido Domingo Alfresca

Last night we joined the estimated 125,000 people gathered at the Obelisk located at the interesection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio for a free outdoor concert by opera legend José Plácido Domingo Embil.  He was joined by soprano Virginia Tola and accompanied...

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Casa Rosada on a Beautiful Sunday in March

Sunday morning we were out of the apartment around 11 headed for the Green Subte Line on Santa Fe about eight blocks away for a long postponed visit to Casa Rosada, the official seat of the executive branch of the government of Argentina located in Plaza de Mayo. Even...

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