Last week’s column described the reasons why Charlie Leocha returns to Pamplona year after year. This week’s column deals with the reality of running the bulls, enjoying the fiesta and some nuts and bolts.
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Calling all Hemingway impersonators. There’s only a week to sign up. Selected participants get a free trip to Pamplona, Spain, in the region of Navarre. Winners get $2,000 and a trip for two to the Running of the Bulls, then along the Hemingway Route in Spain.
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After traveling in Spain for years, NH Hotels is a brand name hotel that can be found in more and more cities and towns. It is now expanding through Europe with their same excellent, affordable, basic businessperson formula.
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In a report released Monday, the Department of Transportation Inspector General stated that Southern California’s Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility (TRACON) relies heavily on inexperienced trainees as well as Northern California’s TRACON near Sacramento.
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Anyone who has “done” Europe, knows that visiting cathedrals is part and parcel of the experience. For many of us the first visit to a cathedral is awe-inspiring. However, after visiting a half-dozen of these massive churches, many tourists’ eyes glaze over. Here are six visits you’ll never forget.
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A few years ago I convinced my husband Ed that spending a week as guests in a country farmhouse in Spain would be the perfect vacation. We’d be surrounded by history, eat some real home cooking, and get to know the people – and more important now than it was then: it would be cheap.
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Teresa Parker who runs Spanish Journeys, a specialty tour operator for gourmet tours to Spain, posted this delightful article about Spanish coffee in her blog. Everyone who loves Spain will savor this.
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Spain gives America a lesson that train travel over relatively short distances can compete with airlines. The new high-speed Madrid–Barcelona train is cutting into their national airline’s schedules and profit levels.
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