Random Observations

1. Portugese people speak much better English than their Spanish and French counterparts. 2. No to-go cups in Portugal, they don’t take their coffee on the road. 3. KFC dropped the mashed potatos but kept the gravy – huh? 4. There was a $450 hair clipper set- must be for shaving your prized sheep. 5. […]

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Vigo, Spain and Porto, Portugal – 6.10.11 to 6.12.11

While checking out of the pseudo hostel in San Sebastian on the 10th, the owner politely asked if the storm had disturbed our sleep. We guess there was some of the worst rain and wind they had seen in months at around 5am. We had no clue as we had only turned in at 3am, […]

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Random Observations

1.  It is better to be a dog in San Sebastian than in New York – no leash laws – they roam the town as masters of their universe. 2.  In hockey they teach you to skate with your eyes up, to avoid hard things crashing into you.  In Europe they must teach you to […]

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San Sebastian – 6.8.11 to 6.10.11

We left Bordeaux the morning of the 8th and started making our way towards our first stop in Spain, San Sebastian. We needed to get there by no later than 4:30pm in order to check into our hotel room and we had about a 3 hour drive ahead of us. We seemed to have enough […]

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Random Observations

1.  It is cheaper to buy a mobile phone + sim card than to just buy a sim card; do they really think I am planning to add that many accessories to my $10 phone?  How else does this business model make any sense? 2.  Spanish people have lots of piercings.  Chris fits right in. […]

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St.Emilion – 6.7.11

Taking the advice of several good friends and few locals, we headed to St.Emilion to see the old village and wineries. We were not quite prepared for the amount of vineyards as St.Emilion has over 600 of them! Essentially we spent the day amidst never ending rows of vines. The first stop was the office […]

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