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An interesting article (which was actually a long, but well-written advertisement!) in MIT's Technology Review this month, talks about Spain's push to lay high-speed rail throughout the country. Spain had been hampered historically, from interlacing ...

Blogging from Blanes, Catalonia: A sun-drenched, beautiful, Mediterranean coastal area of Spain, Catalonia still thinks it is too cool for Spain. A friend who has lived here for 8 years says that the Catalans consider themselves the hard-working ...

It used to be the trademark of the popular Spanish sherry company "Osborne". A random marketing whim 50-years ago made the company erect about 90 14-meter high metallic silhouettes of a bull on all major highways across Spain; now they resemble the ...

There is no better festival on the entire face of this planet than La Tomatina. Sure, that's my own personal opinion, but until a pie throwing festival comes along, La Tomatina will continue to be numero uno in my book. Part of the reason I love ...

What's a country to do when two million residents vote for a man who calls himself Rodolfo Chikilicuatre and looks like an exaggerated (not to mention distorted) version of Elvis, to represent their country in this year's Eurovision? Although ...

Before today, I knew of only one other celebration centered on a fish. During the Walleye Drop on New Year's Eve in Port Clinton, Ohio, townsfolk drop a walleye. Not a real walleye--one made out of some sort of fiberglass material. Here's another ...

Several years ago when I was living in Madrid I remember taking a car trip out to the countryside and remarking to a friend how cool it would be to take a long bike ride along Spain's country roads. The Spanish countryside is a beautiful ...

When we think of Spain (especially those of us who have lived there) the name invokes images of vibrant nation, Latin passion, bull-fighters, flamencos, sleeping a lot in the afternoon (just messing with you, Juan!). Of course, one of the most ...

I am a big fan of Madrid and Spain in general. I lived there for a little while some years ago, and remember fondly the late late nights out (Madrilenos LOVE to stay out until the wee hours of the morning), the small market near the Alcantara ...

Looking at buying some beachfront property in Spain? According to a recent report from Spain's Ministry of the Environment, such a purchase would be a rather poor investment. Sure, you can enjoy it for summer vacations for perhaps the rest of your ...

I don't know what it is about Spain that attracts artists with bizarre, revolutionary designs, but Picasso, Gaudi, and Dalí all fell in love with this wonderful country. Last week we wrote about the extraordinarily odd Dali museum in Figures, ...

It really is a shame: summer travel to Spain is off 6.1 percent this year, as the global economic decline is making the decision to travel tougher for everyone. The country's Tourism Ministry puts the number of July arrivals at just over 6.6 million. ...

Of all the various creatures invading the coast of Spain (including pensioners from Northern Europe), jellyfish are perhaps the least welcome. For a bunch of brainless little, made-up-mostly-of-water suckers, they could be a real pain (the jellyfish, ...

After about a week in Portugal, I'll be spending several in Spain. In recent weeks I've read about two new laws that went into effect in the country at the beginning of 2006. I'll be interested to talk to locals about how they feel about these ...

One of my most favorite car trips of all time was driving through the Spanish countryside on the way to Portugal. A buddy of mine and I rented a car and we just rambled around the country for days, stopping at random castles along the way, grabbing ...