Destination: Spain

Me and Madrid

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By monoj28 | Views [101] | Scholarship Entry

There are those times in your life when you ask yourself "How did I end up here?" You mentally backtrack through the chapters of your life and settle on the moment when a choice was made that lead you to this place. My choice was travelling Europe with ... Read more >

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Back-Alley Bullet Holes

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By hrollheiser | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry

We were following our Contiki tour guide through winding back alleys in Barcelona, Spain. She was telling us where the best tapas bar was and that we should most definitely order a pitcher of sangria. I was at the back of the group, leisurely following ... Read more >

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Reveling in El Raval

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By amp8m | Views [172] | Scholarship Entry

Our legs carry us around the block for the third time, on a mission to find an underground theater with 1 Euro vegan food and beer. The sinking sun casts an eerie glow onto the buildings in Barcelona’s misunderstood El Raval neighborhood. Alone on the ... Read more >

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Sevilla que meravilla

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By andalucia | Views [175] | Scholarship Entry

Looking for your sunshine? Seville will be the answer! It is one of the most incredible city I have ever been in my life! I was completely unaware of what I could find there the first time I decided to visit it! I was invited by a bunch of guys I met ... Read more >

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Sacred Feeling

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By espe | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry

I always like feeling like local people when I travel around. Last time I was in Sevilla in Easter time it was not a exception. I remember we have been doing the city on foot from top to end. We were trapped in squares (where you couldn’t squeeze anything ... Read more >

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The goats of Tenerife

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By eldrago | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry

My friend came up to me one day with some offers for cheap plane tickets and proposed that we'd go the next day either in Crete, either in Tenerife. I had some dinero saved aside for just these sort of situations and I was definitely ready to leave the ... Read more >

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Photos: Me

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By karinaseyeball | Photo Gallery

Photos: Me

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By berossus | Photo Gallery

A town at a standstill

Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jamestheexplorer | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry

‘You know we’re probably gonna die, right?’ My friend flashes me a boyish grin. ‘Mate, I’ve never felt so alive.’ Spanish chants ring out from the cramped balconies above. A silence descends upon those on the ground. I look at the faces clustered around ... Read more >

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A normal guy and a really long walk.

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By roryoates | Views [317] | Scholarship Entry

“I’m just a normal guy doing a really long walk”. This statement summed it all up for me, and I knew it as soon as it was said. These wise words came from my younger brother after being asked the reason he was doing this “long walk” across Spain; the ... Read more >

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Photos: Sevilla

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By hethoandstokesyseuropeanadventure | Photo Gallery

Follow us by Panamerican rute!

Mon, 25 May 2015 | By bikeandrollblog | Views [137]

Hi! we are Gerard and Alba and we are starting our travel during one year by the American continent. Follow our experience on bikeandrollblog.wordpress.com

Friendship without Borders

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By travelacorn | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry

For the past three months, I have been on the road as a nomad in Europe. After leaving the United States in February for Oslo, what had been a loose plan for a six month trip through Europe and Asia was now a concrete stream of events that would change ... Read more >

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My treasure is me, there.

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By mixes | Views [110] | Scholarship Entry

You know when you have thought so many times in your dream, that once it comes, you don't want it happen because you know that it will finish? Being in New York is still my only thought since I touched for the first time a photography book of the city.... Read more >

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Los Lances, Tarifa

Sun, 24 May 2015 | By tarifa | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry

It´s 20 o´clock. Time has come. The sun starts their trip to the future, to a close tomorrow. It happens every day. But everyday is different. 14 kilometers away, I can see Africa. Morocco is clear on the horizon. A bier and my photo camera is all i ... Read more >

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