Spain
Notice: Your odds of winning keep improving as people who have won a daily prize are eliminated from the drawing. Besides, an entry today might win you a terrific mystery book AND an chance at the Grand Prize. Destination: Seville, Spain Book: The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson (2003) How can such a [...]
Wednesday Matinee Destination: Spain Movie: The Way (NEW) Starring Martin Sheen,directed by Sheen’s son Emilio Estevez By Jane Boursaw Clearly, I live a sheltered life. I’d never even heard of the Camino de Santiago until watching The Way, a lovely film about a man whose life takes an interesting turn when he goes to Europe [...]
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The Sun Also Rises, the movie. Does it measure up to Hemingway’s book?
Destinations: Spain and France Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Happy Birthday Ernie! Ernest Hemingway was born 110 years ago on July 21. It seems appropriate to celebrate by talking about his first break-through novel,which turns out to be a pretty good travel book. From dissipated ennui in Paris to dissipated blood [...]
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Destination: Spain Book: Driving Over Lemons, An Optimist in Spain(1998) and Almond Blossom Appreciation(2009) by Chris Stewart Although I loved Spanish Andalucia when we drove from Madrid to the Costa del Sol, up to Granada, down to Seville and the white villages of Malaga, [amazonify]0953522709::text::::Driving Over Lemons[/amazonify] has been sitting on a shelf in my [...]
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Destination: Spain Book: Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes On the road south of Madrid, the names on restaurant and hotels begin to read: Sancho Panza, Dulcinea, Don Quixote–named for the characters in Spain’s most famous book. As we travel through the flat, sun-baked landscape of La Mancha, we burst into song. “To dream the impossible [...]
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Destination: Granada Spain Book: by Washington Irving Moonlight illuminates tile walls and stone lions that are more than 600 years old. The light peoples the walls of the Alhambra with romantic ghosts. Washington Irving knew the evocative power of moonlight. In his book , Tales of the Alhambra, which describes time that he spent in [...]
