Category archives: Travel
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- *Please note I wrote this while traveling a few weeks ago on February 18th, 2013
I woke up at 7am this morning feeling rested. The bed here in my room at the Gredos hotel is very nice and firm. My stomach isn't feeling so great today, I think it might be from how much food we eat at dinner and from eating so late at[...]
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- *Please note I wrote this while traveling a few weeks ago on February 17th, 2013
Its 9:30 in the morning here in Madrid and I am on the bus on my way to the Vaughan Town program in Gredos.
I woke up this morning after 5 hours of sleep, I'm finding the midnight dinners followed almost immediately by sleeping pret[...]
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- *Please note I wrote this while traveling a few weeks ago on February 16th, 2013
I woke up this morning in Madrid, Spain with the warm sun streaming in the window. I had a comfy sleep at my cousins apartment which is located in the suburbs of the city, kind of like Yonge and Eglington in relation to downtown Toront[...]
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- *Please note I wrote this while traveling a few weeks ago - February 15th, 2013
I’m here! I arrived safely in the Madrid airport and was very surprised that they don’t have a customs area to go through. I just got off the plane, picked up my luggage and met with my cousin Todd. He kindly picked me up from the air[...]
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- It's Friday Feb 15th, 2013 and I've been awake for 20 hours so far. Its 5am for me Toronto, Canada time, and I think it's 9:30am London, UK time. I'm feeling pretty foggy as I sit here on my second flight of the day, but I wanted to share some of my experience so far.
Matt brought me to the airport in Toronto and [...]
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- Last week Friday there was a light drizzle of rain in the air as I put my suitcase on the bus. It was my last few minutes standing in the Spanish countryside. I looked one more time to my left, out towards the hotel and the snow capped mountains. That was when I saw something that solidified this experience as truly[...]