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Notes from Spain: Ben Curtis on Travel, Life, Culture, Spain
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Podcasts and comment on travel, tapas, learning Spanish and living in Spain, plus beautiful Spain photos.
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Sunny Madrid and Spain Books
Photo – Madrid’s Retiro Park It’s still unseasonably sunny here – I mean it’s sunny every day, hardly a cloud in the sky – no snow this year. That was one of the things that most impressed me about Madrid when I first moved here 13 years ago, opening the curtains in the morning (or [...]
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Autumn in Madrid’s Retiro Park
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Still In Love With Asturias…
Lago Ercina, The Higher of the Covadonga Lakes. Playa de Cuevas del Mar (Map) Asturias is still as green and majestic as ever (as if it would have changed!) Where else in the world can you leave such a stunning coastline and in under an hour be high up in mountains so impressive that they [...]
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Welcome to Notes From Spain!
If this is your first visit then ¡Bienvenido! You’ll find endless information about Life in Spain, Spanish food, travel in Spain, our famous Spain podcasts, and even learning Spanish, at our sister site Notes in Spanish.
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Amazon.es Update: Amazon Now Open in Spain
Update: Amazon.es is now open. As many online commenters are complaining, many products are significantly cheaper in Amazon UK and USA stores (especially electronics, cameras, dvds etc), but they are missing an important point. Amazon.es will still thrive here simply because it is in Spanish. The new Amazon.es site will pick up all those new [...]
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Dirty Carpet
We went to look at a house to rent recently. It was great, lovely parquet floor in the big salon, plenty of light. Then we went upstairs and found dirty, stained carptets. This is odd. Spanish people, in general do not like carpet. Trying to rent a house with carpet in Madrid is practically insane. [...]
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Amazon To Open in Spain – Big Changes Ahead?
According to the press, Amazon is due to open in Spain on Sept. 15th. [Update: Amazon.es is now open.] This is hardly surprising – all over Madrid you see MRW vans delivering Amazon packages every day, and it isn’t just expats like me buying English books. Many Spanish people have been turning to Amazon for [...]
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Happy to be Home Again – Reflections from a Trans-European Road Trip
We just finished a 6,500 Km drive from Madrid, via San Sebastian (above) to the North of France, across to the UK, over the channel to Germany via Belgium, and back to Madrid via France and Catalonia again. Here are some thoughts from the trip… Collective Conscienciousness… Every neighbourhood, town, region, city, and country, has [...]
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Us and Them, Me and the Locals
Above, another picture from our recent trip to El Boca del Asno. When you get down to rock and water level, nature is quite endlessly surprising! Right, what I want to talk about: In the Boca del Asno post, I wrote the following… …as usual so many people stick close to the car park, that [...]
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Insomnia, Heat, and La Boca del Asno
It’s hot. 38º Celsius (100ºF) hot. No one can sleep hot. It shouldn’t be a surprise, after all, this happens every year in Madrid, and every year I swear it’ll be my last summer living in the capital. Oh well, perhaps we’ll all get used to it in a week or two! Luckily we’ve discovered [...]
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