When I heard about Sintra, it was always suggested as a day trip out of Lisbon. I stayed overnight, and I still didn’t have enough time. Though, to be honest, I pretty much spent my whole day at the Quinta da Regaleira taking pictures (despite print guides saying it only needed two hours). Sintra itself is […]
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Jimena de la Frontera
Following Ronda, I stopped in another one of the “White Villages”, Jimena de la Frontera. The train ride between Ronda and Jimena is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s worth doing just for the train ride alone! Unfortunately it’s not so easy to take good pictures from a moving a train, so here’s the best one: Jimena clings […]
Ronda
After Sevilla, I headed onwards to Ronda. By this point the rain had picked up and it was raining heavily and steadily across the entire Iberian peninsula. Ronda is one of the “White Towns of Andalucia” – a collection of mountain villages in and around the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park characterized by their whitewashed walls […]
Spanish Language School – Week Four
Last week was my fourth and final week of Spanish classes. My class saw more change (a new professor and new students) but not a lot of new material. We spent the week practicing and reviewing the two past tenses we’d learned the previous weeks, which I found a bit frustrating. (The practice was very, […]
Spanish Language School – Week Two
By some miracle, my class stayed exactly the same this week: we had all of the same students, same teachers, same classroom. (This is not typical; all of us are in the school for varying time lengths with different start dates so classes typically see at some change each week.) Next week we won’t be […]