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Seville Snapshots: Love Locks in Florence, Italy
Actions always speak louder than words, right? I mean, I teach English and I know more idioms than I would ever need to know, but my knees goes all jelly and my heart melts when I see random acts of...
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Seville Snapshots: Twilight at the Setas of Plaza de la Encarnacion
Planning a trip to Seville? Look no further than Sandra of Seville Traveller. Like me, a visit to Seville brought her back to live in the capital of Andalusia, and she uses her free time to write great...
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Seville Snapshots: Laid Back at Puerta Jerez
As an adopted Sevillana, I have my haunts: from La Grande’s red awning to the little corner of Las Golondrinas, tucked beneath the squares, within earshot of Pepe who shouts, Niiiiiiñaaaa, tu...
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Seville Snapshots: Reflection of the San Fernando Statue of Plaza Nueva
I hastily jumped out of bed, cursing myself for forgetting to set my second alarm. I’d made early morning plans with Katie which included a hot coffee on a cold day and a bit of shopping for Feria...
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Seville Snapshot: Tools of the Gypsy Trade
Moises extends his hand to me, wiping it first on the back of his pant leg. ¡Wenas noshes, hoooooooola a mis amigos, olé mis grandes señores! His greeting is always the same, and accompanied by a...
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Seville Snapshots: Making a Splash in Croatia
This blog is a long love letter to Spain, particularly Andalucía, but traveling outside the land of sunshine and siestas is a lovely hiccup to my everyday life, my vida cotidiana. Like any expat, I’ve...
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Seville Snapshots: Cat at the Alcazaba, Almería
With beautiful vistas of the sea with a sharp red desert contrast the background in which lies the city of Almería. It may not be the most picturesque city in Andalucía but it has a few unexpected...
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Seville Snapshots: Reflecting on Art at the Guggenheim, Bilbao
On an unexpected school field trip to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, I quietly captured photos of the art that surrounds the museum while students posed for photos with friends. Admiring a silver...
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Seville Snapshots: Colorful Windows in El Centro
Madrid and I have a complicated relationship: it took me a few years in Spain and several trips to discover what was beneath the flashy Gran Vía, to understand the pulse of the big city that houses...
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Seville Snapshots: Calle Pureza, the heart of Triana
“Soy Ana, de la Calle Pureza“ Kelly never fails to let people believe she’s trianera, a resident of the Triana neighborhood of Seville. When I called this barrio home for three years, we’d often wax...
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Seville Snapshots: Un Poquiño da Coruña
Galicia, the region resting quietly above Portugal, is one of my favorite parts of Spain. Just this week I turned in my final project for my master’s, said adiós to my mom until Christmas and flew up...
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Seville Snapshots: Coruña’s Blue Hour
Julie lead us out of the bar and out towards the ocean. Seeing the Riazor and Orzan beaches, which nuzzle up to the isthmus of the city of La Coruña, continually takes my breath away as I remember long...
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Seville Snapshots: The Real Escuela Ecuestre de Jerez
It may be summer, but here’s a quiz: Spain:Cat::Horses:Cat’s mom. I grew up spending Sundays at the barn, learning to care for horses and riding my mother’s docile giant, The Pudge. My mother tried in...
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Seville Snapshots: Waymarkers on the Camino de Santiago
My flashlight bounces off the ground, searching fanatically for a spray painted yellow arrow on anything – a rock, a tree trunk, an abadoned church. It isn’t even 6am yet, and the rain drives down...
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Capture the Color: My favorite colorful shots of Spain
My mother recently asked me why I no longer had any hobbies. Um, sorry Nance, but doesn’t toting my trusty Canon, Camarón, around everywhere, eating my fill of tapas and following my favorite fútbol...
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Seville Snapshots: Luarca, Asturias
We were faced with a decision that only a pilgrim faces: walk the 1.8 kilometers to an albergue that was rumored to be next to a dairy farm in Almuña, or walk 3km downhill to the town of Luarca. Duh....
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Spain Snapshots: Playa de las Catedrales, Galicia
After my disappointing jaunt to the ‘Most Beautiful Village in Spain,’ I had even higher expectations for the ‘Most Beautiful Beach in Spain,’ Playa As Catedrais. Arriving to Ribadeo, the first town in...
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Spain Snapshots: The Lonja de la Sede, Valencia
The Llotja de Sede was once the Valencia’s major trading post, leaving behind a legacy as a great merchant city on the Mediterranean. Named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the late 1990s for its...
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Seville Snapshots: Verano de San Miguel
The streets hummed – literally, I mean: on one end of San Jacinto, a religious procession was led by a brass band playing melancholical music while a cover band rocked the steps at Capote. We could...
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Spain Snapshots: The Romanesque Churches of Oviedo
There is little I don’t love about Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias, nestled between the Picos de Europa and the Cantabrian Sea – the enormous cachopos, the spontaneous rainpours,...
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