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Spain
Can We Please Keep Phones Away From Drivers?
Investigators in Spain are saying the driver of the train that derailed last Wednesday, killing 79 people, was using his cell phone at the time of the accident. It has also become clear that the train was going 94 mph on a sharp bend of track where the speed limit was only ...
What Impact Will The Train Crash In Spain Have On The Rail Travel Industry?
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-519248{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-519248, #postcontentcontainer ...Train Crash Kills Dozens In Spain
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-420841{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-420841, #postcontentcontainer ...Tiny Spanish Village Hopes to Profit From Antiquities Thief
Should a town have the right to display looted antiquities stolen by one of its residents? According to an intriguing piece by Suzanne Daley in The New York Times this morning, the mayor of tiny Aranda de Moncayo, Spain, population 200, thinks they should. A 60-year-old ...Two-Wheeled Tourism: 10 Cities to Visit If You Love Bikes
Anna Brones
Why spend your summer vacation on subways and buses when you could be out exploring places on two wheels?
Thanks to an explosion in bike-share systems and a general appreciation for bike culture, making cycling a central part of your travels is becoming ...Eating And Drinking In Valencia: Fartons, Paella And Orange-Flavored Cava
Sean McLachlan
A holiday in Spain is all about the food. Oh, and there's the art, the nightlife, the beaches, the countryside, the beautiful people, but really it's all about the food. It's one of the great world cuisines, and as you eat your way around the country you find ...Valencia: Spain's Third City Offers Culture And Cuisine
Sean McLachlan
There's a well-worn tourist trail in Spain: Madrid for the art, Barcelona for the nightlife and the Costa del Sol for the beaches. All of these are great, but there are plenty of other spots that often slip under the radar. Valencia, for example, gets plenty ...Madrid Offers Up Great Summer Art Season
Dalí, El gran masturbador, 1929 © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, Madrid, 2013
Madrid is one of the best destinations in the world for art, and this summer its many museums and galleries are putting on an impressive array ...Video Of The Day: Barcelona Time-Lapse
"MIDNIGHT BARCELONA" from Pau García Laita on Vimeo.
What better way to see Barcelona at night than through the lens of time-lapse footage? This beautiful footage from the city was put together by Pau Garcia Laita. The lights of Barcelona against the night sky look ...
Better Know A Holiday: St. John's Day (And Eve)
f_jensen_at_sdr.vinge, Flickr
AKA: Fete Nationale du Quebec (Canada), Kupala Day (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland), Festa Junina (Brazil), Foguera de San Xuan (Brazil), Jaanilaupaev (Estonia), Saint Jonas' Festival (Lithuania), Jani (Latvia), Dia de Sao Joao (Portugal), ...Mapping An Unexplored Cave
© Dr Michel Royon, Wikimedia Commons
Want to be an explorer? Want to see places nobody has ever seen? You have three options: become an astronaut, become a deep-sea diver or become a caver.
The first isn't going to happen for a man my age and the second is expensive, ...Learn Spanish With Lonely Planet's Fluent Road
Courtesy of FluentRoad.com
Traveling to Spain or Latin America this summer and want to say more than "Donde esta el bano?" (though, that's an important one to know)? Lonely Planet has just launched a new online foreign language program, Fluent Road, partnering with Spanish ...Photo Of The Day: Alhambra's Palacio De Carlos V
Mike Rowe, Flickr
Capturing a stunning combination of architecture and weather, Flickr user Mike Rowe took this black and white photo at the palace of Charles V, contained within the Alhambra in Grenada, Spain.
Commissioned as a royal residence close to the Alhambra ...Barcelona Disses Plans For A Space Hotel
jurvetson, Flickr
Do you find yourself bored by the typical hotel's amenities? Butler services, organic mini bars and other bells and whistles just don't do it for you anymore? Well how about staying in a hotel with a vertical wind tunnel? And maybe after that you can unwind ...Video Of The Day: A Spanish Roadtrip
"A Spanish Roadtrip" from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.
Want to get a taste of Spanish food, hear Flamenco music and see beautiful footage of the Spanish city and countryside? Then take a few minutes to watch this beautiful video from The Perennial Plate. Cut together with ...
Famous Roman 'Tomb' May Have Actually Been A Temple
At the Roman necropolis in Carmona, Spain, visitors are led to the popular "Elephant's Tomb," a large underground chamber that gets its name from a crude sculpture of an elephant found there.
Now archaeologists are saying it may not be a tomb at all, but rather a temple ...Napoleonic Wars Refought In Spain
The second of May is a date that every Spaniard knows. In 1808 on that date, the Spanish people rose up against Napoleon and started a long struggle to kick his troops out of the country. They'd been occupied the year before when Spain's weak king had foolishly allowed ...Intrepid Travel Offering 20 Percent Off All Food-Centric Trips Through August 31
Melbourne-based Intrepid Travel – known for its cultural and food-focused trips to remote corners of the planet – is now offering 20 percent off over 350 of their trips, including the newly-launched Food Adventures. The discount is good for all trips departing ...In Praise Of Travel Lists
Travel lists get a lot of grief. I've overheard many fellow travel writers offer the opinion that lists of various sorts are deeply inferior to any and all narrative travel writing. Others have suggested that lists are slowly crowding out real travel writing entirely.
...Springtime In Green Spain: Time To Get Out Into The Countryside, And Under It!
Green Spain has finally emerged from a miserable winter into a glorious if unreliable springtime, so it's time to get out and enjoy the region's natural beauty.
The northern coastal strip of Spain consisting of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Region has the ...
