December 23 was a notable day for a couple of reasons.
For one thing, it’s the first day of our 2+ week Christmas vacation and the beginning of our travels around Andalucía.
For another, it marks exactly 3 months since we arrived in Spain.
Month: December 2015
Paris: 36 Hours of Life and Death
It was a warm, pleasant night in Madrid when the Paris terrorist attacks took place. We were spending our evening much like many of the victims: out with friends, enjoying the city.
Paris isn’t exactly in our back yard, but the event still felt near to me in a way I’m not used to as an American. Messages from our more worry-prone family members started to roll in, asking us to take precautions, avoid crowds, stay off the Metro. We remembered the terrorist attacks on Madrid’s subway in 2004 — which we’d only recently learned had taken place at a station we now pass through all the time.
Berlin: Connecting with the past
Over the last few years, I’ve been hearing more and more about what a cool city Berlin is. I jealously followed my friend Rikka’s experience there over on Deviating the Norm (hashtag travelbloggoals), and her descriptions of the city’s devotion to social justice, egalitarianism, noncomformity and partying (duh!) made up my mind that this was a place I needed to visit.
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