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CTyankee

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14. Well, I think the experience in Spain was different because it was infusive (is that a word?) as

Reply to DFW (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 31, 2019, 07:55 AM

Oct 2019

opposed to the intellectually driven research like I was doing on Italian Renaissance art.

Do you have any advice on those companies that offer you a car and driver right there at the airport, meet your flight, take you to your bed and breakfast, etc. ? I am too old to manage the trains in Italy, altho I have done it in the past, so a driver sounds good (this is for the Arezzo. trip).

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Meanwhile, back in Barcelona, Catalunya [View all] DFW Oct 2019 OP

good read. Thanks DFW. panader0 Oct 2019 #1

arroz negro enid602 Oct 2019 #2

Thanks, elleng Oct 2019 #3

I always think that Spain changed my life. How, I don't know. I was just so impressed with it. CTyankee Oct 2019 #4

I'm almost never in Italy DFW Oct 2019 #8

Well, I think the experience in Spain was different because it was infusive (is that a word?) as CTyankee Oct 2019 #14

Unfortunately, I have no experience with those companies DFW Oct 2019 #15

I've loved Catalunya since the 1960s. Barcelona was rough in the 70/80's erronis Oct 2019 #5

I wasn't down there much at all during the 1980s DFW Oct 2019 #9

Good points, especially about the CH erronis Oct 2019 #31

The really violent Basques were always very few in number DFW Oct 2019 #32

just back evertonfc Oct 2019 #6

Were you trying to watch the Classico (Barcelona - Madrid)? Ron Obvious Oct 2019 #12

messi.. We saw Messi bag a FK.... evertonfc Oct 2019 #26

I guess I don't have to ask if you had a good time! n/t DFW Oct 2019 #19

I fucking love Catalonia, from Barcelona all up into Perpignan, France. Goodheart Oct 2019 #7

It does grow on you DFW Oct 2019 #10

I was just there this past Wednesday Solomon Oct 2019 #11

I was there a few days in the 70s treestar Oct 2019 #13

You're probably thinking of Saturday morning DFW Oct 2019 #17

I love Barcelona. It's my favorite city. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #16

It's an easy city to give that title to! DFW Oct 2019 #18

My ex was a professor of Spanish. We used to take a study-abroad group there each summer. tblue37 Oct 2019 #21

I was there in the Franco era. DFW Oct 2019 #24

Me too. Our trips started in 1971. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #27

My first time was 1968 DFW Oct 2019 #28

I was always nervous around the Guardia Civil and their automatic weapons. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #29

Ah, yes, "the Guads," as we called them DFW Oct 2019 #30

In Barcelona last year. kairos12 Oct 2019 #20

I can imagine! DFW Oct 2019 #22

Those cobbled streets in the Barrio Gotico date back to Medieval times. Some stores there tblue37 Oct 2019 #23

They certainly do! DFW Oct 2019 #25