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February 27, 2004
An Introduction
My mom and I first decided to go to Spain in November of 2002. We started planning around the end 2003. It has always been my mom's dream to go - Spain was never big on my list. I was an Italy freak until I moved to Italy and then, when I lived in Italy I mostly traveled north. Spain seemed too huge for a quick journey. Spain IS too huge for a quick journey! Now that we are going and I am planning, I am totally into Spain and have that queasy, nervous, can't sit still feeling that I had before my first trip to Italy.
Now that I am my discovery mode, I wonder why I have not been before. But on the other hand, I think I am at the perfect point in my life to make this journey. I've seen plenty of Italy and I've seen a few big, metropolitan European cities like Copenhagen and Budapest. I love ruins and vineyards but I also really, really love giant boulevards with lots of neon. I'm half Arabic so I wonder if I will get to Andalucia and feel like I am home. I am ready. Bring it on.
We leave March 26 and will be gone 24 days. Our itinerary is:
March 27, 28, 29, 30 Madrid
March 31 to Toledo
April 1 Toledo
April 2 to Sevilla
April 3,4,5 Sevilla
April 6 to Cordoba
April 7, 8 Cordoba
April 9 to Granada
April 10,11,12 Granada
April 13 fly to Barcelona
April 14,15,16,17 Barcelona
April 18 home.
We will be in Sevilla for two days pre-Semana Santa, and two days into the festival. In Cordoba and Granada there will also be some Easter processions. So this should be a very magical and possibly surreal time to be traveling to Spain.
We will be renting apartments in Madrid, Sevilla, Granada and Barcelona, and hotels in Toledo and Cordoba. I have become an apartment junkie. If I can possibly rent an apartment over a hotel, I will. So we will have plenty of space - important, I think on such a long journey. We have airline tickets from Granada to Barcelona, and have train tickets on the AVE train from Madrid to Sevilla.
Gosh, this is sort of boring. I promise to make it a little more interesting.
Posted by Shannon at February 27, 2004 4:56 PM
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