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Erik's Blog - Thoughts and Photos from an American in Spain

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Thoughts and photos of an American living in Spain.

Added on: Mar 19th, 2008
Country: Spain
Language: English

Author: Erik R.
Listed in: Photo Blogs Travel
Tags: spain programming photos Cantabria atheism expat

Recent Posts

Batalla de Flores, The Day After

Posted on Sunday August 30th, 2009 at 09:34 in spain, photos, partying

Every year, on the last Friday of August, the nearby beach town of Laredo holds the Batalla de Flores (Flower Battle), which consists of parade floats decorated with flowers and young girls. It’s always a very beautiful event. This year the w...
Dinner and a Portrait

Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 11:53 in spain, family, photos, extremadura

On the penultimate night of our summer vacation in Extremadura, we went, at my insistence, to a local restaraunt that we call El Cruce because it’s at a crossroads, but that is really called Hotel Trajano. The food was excellent, as always, bu...
Coin Operated Amusement

Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 07:42 in funny, parenting, scary, complaining

The other day I took Nora out for a walk. We stopped at a bar with a terrace, and I ordered a glass of wine and opened a book. Nora was content to observe the other patrons. By bad planning, I was situated right next to one of these coin operated ...
Cantabrian Clogs: Shoes With Legs!

Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 05:14 in spain, videos, colindres

These wooden shoes, called albarcas de Cantabria in Spanish, date back to at least 1657, when King Felipe IV mentioned them in a letter to the Pope. They are overshoes, worn over your house slippers, to be kicked off at the door upon entering your h...
Sauga Folk Festival 2009

Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 15:12 in spain, music, photos, partying, colindres

In August every year, my adopted town of Colindres, Spain, holds a Sauga Folk music festival celebrating local and international folk music. We have missed it the previous three years because it almost always coincides with our annual migration sout...
Internauta – Favorite Spanish Words

Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 07:25 in internet, Spanish, musings

internauta: n. a user of the internet. Just like an astronaut navigates the stars (still only figuratively, unfortunately), an internauta navigates the complex network of tubes connected computers collectively known as The Internet. The threshold to...