Old Glory in Bilbao? Oh, never mind. |
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Old Glory. The Stars and Stripes. The be-all and end-all of Betsy Ross's oeuvre. Call it what you will, the American flag was not something I was expecting to see flying from practically every floor of every building in the Plaza Moyúa in downtown Bilbao. Nevertheless, there it was! It didn't make sense.
On the Grid in Baixa, Lisboa |
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The Brett Favre of Backpacks |
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I knew that this package was going to be a bit ungainly, but I didn’t expect it to be such a masterpiece of engineering. It arrived barely intact, bearing the scars of the long trip from the West Coast: three big recycled boxes, all strung together by gobs of tape and patched with other shipping/receiving detritus. Enclosed within was a frame backpack from Eurotrips of generations past, brought out of retirement in my garage into the wild world once more. This was the Brett Favre of backpacks.
Preparation |
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Good day, sirs and madams. I am Christine, your Guardian through Austria and Hungary.
A Spanish Drink with Pomp and Circumstance |
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Consuming alcohol in Spain is practically a requirement. What with the two-hour break for lunch that most Spaniards enjoy daily, who wouldn’t be tempted to have a glass of wine along with the midday meal? Dinner is sometimes considered incomplete without the requisite glass of Rioja or Cava wine. I, for one, drank my fair share of sangria and jerez (Spanish sherry) during a recent visit to Madrid.
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