Month: May 2011
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el mercadito.
By the second day in Madrid we knew we had to make a few plans on where to go beforehand, now that we knew our way around. We came to the conclusion that madrid isn’t actually that big of a city — we walked through most places without any trouble what so ever and without…
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blog crush: lingered upon.
The title, “lingered upon,” is taken from a line of one of my favorite T.S. Eliot poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Here, it is meant to say that I lingered on some moment and hence, a photo came of it. Or perhaps someone else’s art caught my eye and made me linger.…
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real madrid.
Our hotel was in the Barrio de La Latina, full of narrow streets and big squares. The first thing we spotted was a nice street market with the most beautiful flowers… We then headed off to the Gran Via and basically just strolled around taking in the views. We sat in the front of the…
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segovia.
Oh the beautiful segovia. We always tend to find these beautiful small cities that draw us in. It comes as no surprise that this city was declared as a World Heritage, with the snow-topped mountains in the background and the 8th century old cathedral this small city is definitely a place to go back. The…
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españa.
I finally managed to get a couple of hours to edit more photos from Madrid. I need holidays. These are just from the first and second day of our trip: we visited salamanca and spent the night in Valladolid in an freaking awesome hotel, where we had dinner — that wasn’t as good as I…
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a year ago, I remember.
a year ago I was drowning myself in work — the school year was ending and my internship as a teacher was over. a year ago it was thursday, and I was getting ready to leave the next day to Lisbon with some of my students for a contest. a year ago I didn’t know…