Reading and Roaming
BOOKS AND READING Navy Wife on Tiny Italian Island: The Half Life by Rachel Beanland In the early 1970s, Eileen O’Malley is still mourning the death of her brother in the Vietnam War when she marries Naval officer Paul Archer. He works in radiological control on submarines and soon, they are posted to tiny La Maddalena, off the …
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TOWN OF TOLOSA Today we spent some time in the Basque countryside stopping in Tolosa, south of San Sebastián, on the way. Tolosa is a junction point between Navarre and San Sebastián and from early times was an important trading area. Today it has a population of just over 20,000 people and hosts a large …
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What We Saw Today we spent more time exploring the sights of Barcelona from the main government buildings in Plaza San Jaime to remains of the Temple of Augustus to the Palau del La Musica Catalana to the Inglesia de Santa Maria Del Mar. In between, we managed to sandwich in some time in the …
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ARRIVAL IN BARCELONA Our flights were smooth, the line for entry into Spain long, but moving; the bags, however, took a long time to be delivered to the belt. There was traffic from the airport making the ride to our hotel longer than usual. Given the hotel’s location in a pedestrian area, we were dropped …
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