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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By aye | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
You could’ve dubbed it borderline seedy too easily. A tavern by night in high-summer, tourist-pleasing Andalucía. Somewhat lustred with olive oil, sweat or maybe tears, the dark wooden panelling and handrails of short flights of stairs to snug little ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ramblingrider | Views [131] | Scholarship Entry
Having ridden my whole life I love to experience a new culture through its horsemanship. In Spain doma vaquera is used to manage aggressive fighting bulls by means of a 12 foot pole called the garrocha. For a month my mum and I lived in the small Spanish ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By map7 | Views [167]
Got a Bus to Valencia, it was moving so naturally Amanda slept whilst I wrote the blog.
Arriving in Valencia we had 4hrs to kill, so we took a nice quick walk around town and grabbed a bite to eat. After this we caught the train, first class to Barcelona ... Read more >
Wed, 14 May 2014 | By bridgetlamb | Views [159] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I was almost insulin-less in a brand new, non-English speaking country, alone. I had spent my first full day in Barcelona exploring Park Guell. It was beautiful, but its enormity and complex layout didn’t help when I realized ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By bluedog86 | Views [183] | Scholarship Entry
It all went down on the N-630 highway in Spain; a long bit of road that is the main connection between the copper colored buildings in Salamanca and the sunlit shades of off-white tint Leon. It was several minutes to midnight as our two busses stood motionless ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By neptuneboy | Views [231] | Scholarship Entry
A bus drops me by the River Guadalquivir on a sunny morning in Cordoba. As one given to historical fantasies, I stride like the last of the Almohads, surveying the ancient water wheel that lies silent in the wake of the Reconquista. An attractive wall ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By austrarican_ezzie | Views [391] | Scholarship Entry
La Tomatina, the largest tomato fight in the world, now that’s the kind of thing you hear about and just know you have to experience. It’s also the kind of thing where you then find yourself standing half blinded with acidic tomato juice, barefoot and ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By ceireskitchen | Views [274] | Scholarship Entry
It starts to drizzle. The pain underneath my left foot surges. My brother checks his backpack–no food. I hear my father let out a pained yell of frustration as he runs up the mountainside and tries to find a clear path for us to follow. My aunt groans ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By georgiewritesplaces | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
Big cities move quickly. People walk briskly, with hits of caffeine fuelling their drive towards all kinds of deadlines. Barcelona is no exception to this big city mentality. Being a tourist in a hectic city such as Barcelona does not leave you exempt ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By loca_lulu | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
I'll never forget the day I left South Africa for Barcelona the city of acceptance. With my feet firmly on Spanish soil I looked around in wonder at the bustling streets with it's frenzy of shoppers, sunburnt tourists and French bulldogs. Having studied ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By cetartha | Views [2266] | Scholarship Entry
With a distant pop in the sky, a deep fear flooded my senses. An idle girl bolted down the fenced course, but no one followed. The rest of us waited. We knew a second pop was coming, and something worse. Shouts echoed from the corner where the Mayor's ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By map7 | Views [173]
Headed out to organise ourselves for the trip to Barcelona and spent most of the day walking around the streets of Denia.
Headed back to Sylvana & Ken's to relax around the pool and listen to music.
Tue, 13 May 2014 | By simonpepper | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
I kicked open the flaking gate, arms full with the squirming twins and dropped them, giggling and chirruping, into the dusty yard. In a field, an old lady, contorted to a right-angle, raised a hoe and brought it down amongst neat rows. At Unai’s lilting ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By tauseef | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
It was the middle of the night and darkness was ruling. We were in the middle of a totally deserted area in the central region of Spain. I had already driven for more than 8 hours. Even though I was extremely tired and exhausted, yet my feet were still ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [672]
Ronda, inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls , home of bullfighting & most importantly the location of De Locos Tapas . This restaurant, located on the outskirts of the old town, just inside the city wall is easily ... Read more >
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