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When In Barcelona, Please Stay In Your Designated Lane
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When In Barcelona, Please Stay In Your Designated Lane

Some let their frustrations out through screaming, others by crying or pouting silently in a corner. In Barcelona, one pissed-off Catalan graffiti artist lets his frustrations out by painting the streets of the Gothic Quarter […]

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Madrid Is For Meat Lovers
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Madrid Is For Meat Lovers

Summer is the season of summits, but not all summits are created equal. I might come off as politically disinclined when I say (or in this case, write) that there is one meeting that interests […]

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The Best Of Spain In Photos
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The Best Of Spain In Photos

What do you call a person who is obsessed with Spain? A Spainophile? A Spainaholic? A Spainophyte? (A google search of spainophyte resulted in a result that asked whether I meant “sporophyte,” “The spore-producing phase […]

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Video: Barcelona — By Skateboard
Video: Barcelona — By Skateboard

Video: Barcelona — By Skateboard

Come see Barcelona with Danny. You remember Danny, right? My 37-year-old unemployed friend who spends his days in Barcelona drinking coffee, smoking, cigarettes, and skateboarding around the city with nary a care. Yes, I’m jealous. […]

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What Time Do The Basques Eat Dinner?
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What Time Do The Basques Eat Dinner?

Trick question. The answer is that it depends. Are you in Spanish or French Basque country? What’s the difference? To find out, the NYT takes a road trip through both countries, starting from the westernmost […]

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Surviving Spain

Surviving Spain

Every year for the past fifteen, over 200,000 people converge on the coast of Spain for the annual music festival, Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, for four days of live music, partying, and hanging out at […]

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Where’s The Best Place For Tapas In Spain?

Where’s The Best Place For Tapas In Spain?

According to the Guardian, the best place in Spain to visit for some of the best (as well as proximately located) tapas in the country is in the town of Logroño, where close to 50 […]

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Madrid’s Must-See New Old Market This Summer
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Madrid’s Must-See New Old Market This Summer

This week the NYT drops by what’s got to be near the top of any list of things to see while visiting Madrid: the newly reopened Mercado San Miguel, the city’s mecca for food junkies […]

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This Is Why You Want To Go To Barcelona
This Is Why You Want To Go To Barcelona

This Is Why You Want To Go To Barcelona

Very cool time lapse video of the city. Not recommended for those with motion sickness issues or for those who are inebriated while reading this site (and I know that probably excludes half of the […]

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Madrid on Zero Euros A Day
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Madrid on Zero Euros A Day

So you have that summer trip to Spain all mapped out, and now all you have left to do is to wait around and watch every day as the U.S. Dollar plummets against the euro […]