Tag: Spain
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Pinxto Paradise: 5 Pinxto Bars in San Sebastian
I love San Sebastian. I fell for it hard on our first trip there in 2012 and I’m still enamored. I legitimately want to buy an apartment there. I’m not exactly in a position to do so just yet but a girl sure can dream. So what do I love about San Sebastian? Oh, just…
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GGGOOOAAALLL!!! Football in Spain: La Liga in Bilboa
Editor’s note: We’re going to do something a little different on ThePoeLog and declare this “Soccer Week.” Guest editor and soccer expert XFE has kindly written up a series of posts on the soccer games we went to in Spain. Part 1: UEFA in Bilbao is here and Part 2: Copa del Rey in San…
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GGGOOOAAALLL!!! Football in Spain Part II: Copa del Rey in San Sebastian
Editor’s note: We’re going to do something a little different on ThePoeLog and declare this “Soccer Week.” Guest editor and soccer expert XFE has kindly written up a series of posts on the soccer games we went to in Spain. Part 1: UEFA in Bilbao is here. The next game on our agenda was…
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GGGOOOAAALLL!!! Football in Spain: UEFA in Bilboa
Editor’s note: We’re going to do something a little different on ThePoeLog and declare this “Soccer Week.” Guest editor and soccer expert XFE has kindly written up a series of posts on the soccer games we went to in Spain, and we’ll be posting them throughout the week. While this installment of ThePoeLog may…
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Mini Meals: 5 Pinxto Bars in Bilbao
I might have mentioned that on our recent trip to northern Spain we ate all the pinxtos. You might have thought that was an exaggeration. I assure you. It was not. We really did eat pinxtos from morning till night. There’s just something about those little appetizer-sized wonders that I just adore. Maybe it’s all…
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Saint Jean de Luz: ‘Silence of the Ducks’
I now know where ducks go to die and give up their livers.* Well, ostensibly die. You (or a duck, for that matter) can’t live without a liver. BUT you (or a duck, presumably) can get by with as little as 25 percent of a liver. Oh, and? It regenerates, growing back to its full…
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Back to the Basque
Hola, mis gentes. And Happy New Year! (Where did 2015 go? Seriously. I can’t believe it’s a new year. I’m woefully unprepared.) My travel-compadre-for-life and I have had a sort of travel rule for the last 10 years, which is: “Let’s go to new places. Places that neither of us have ever been.” After all,…
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Friday Links: Don’t Clip Your Nails at Home Depot
Little bit late on the links this morning. But there’s some pretty good one’s in this week’s edition, so pull up a chair, put on a fancy dress, grab some foreign cheese and get your dubstep on. I am quite unfortunate to have not one, but by my count, at least two co-workers who think…
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San Sebastian Revisited (Six Months Later)
I have a weird blogging habit – I hate to put up my last post from a particular vacation. I guess subconsciously I feel like it’s the last time I’ll savor a place. That writing that last post means that vacation is truly ended and in the books and only to be relived on the…