Spain Travel

What would you do if you're given a €20 note in Greece with an email address scribbled on it: Spend it, slip the suspect counterfeit bill into an enemy’s birthday card, or send an email, hoping it will lead to you finding everlasting love? Brad, a hopeless romantic, chose the latter. Two years later, his love life remains a disaster and his career is misfiring. As he’s about to walk Spain’s fabled Camino de Santiago to ponder some profound life changes, Brad receives a reply.

Stretching across 500 miles of northern Spain, the Camino de Santiago has been a pilgrimage route for centuries. Setting off as a competitive, shrewd negotiator with little patience for small talk, Victor Prince emerged as a very different person - more balanced, more caring, more present in the moment, but looking to the future. Prince translates this growth experience into seven leadership skills, each linked to values that have guided Camino travelers for centuries.

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris Stewart and his family still living on their farm, El Varo -- but life there never stands still. You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on the way to treat dung beetles, bluffs his way as an art history guide to millionaire Bostonians, collects seeds in North Africa, and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. And you'll cringe as he tries his hand at office work in Granada.

From autumn 2018 to spring 2019, British journalist Stephen Powell traveled the length of Portugal, following a zigzag path of nearly 1,500 kilometers on foot. Away from the mass tourism, he wanted to form his own unhurried impressions of this very distinctive country. He discovered a very mixed reality. The dark side was the blight of rural exodus that is emptying so many villages. But he also found a profoundly generous, warm-hearted people with time to converse—a gift that is not found everywhere.

In this guide we will show you how to best plan your sexual voyage through Spain's clubs, bars, and back alleys so that you can have fun, stay safe, and save money. Get a thorough rundown of what the Spanish sex scene is like, including its exciting pushes on the frontiers of sex clubs and how to make sure you stay on the right side of the law. There is plenty of fun to be had here without getting into any trouble.

When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration of the sites that people believe God once touched.

You've heard all about it. You've seen all the pictures. Now it's your turn to experience the wonderful spice and flavor that is Barcelona! Passport to European Travel Guides offers this comprehensive, yet quick and concise, five-day guide to Barcelona, Spain - one of the hottest cities in Europe right now!

In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities (cloves, pepper, and nutmeg) flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying 18 emaciated men. During their remarkable voyage around the world the crew endured starvation, disease, mutiny, and torture. Many men died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle.

Planning to walk a Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain? This is the book for you. This audiobook is a collection of tips to help you plan, prepare, train, shop for, and walk the famous Camino de Santiago, written by someone who spent seven weeks walking the Via de La Plata route of the Camino de Santiago. You’ll learn what gear you’ll need, how to choose the right boots, and how to break them in properly. You’ll discover the best ways to condition yourself to walk the Camino de Santiago.

Do you want to sleep better and relieve the day’s stress? Then it’s time to try Sleep Meditation. Embark on a journey with the narrator, and let him guide you through a relaxing trip to Barcelona guaranteed to help you relax and prepare for sleep. Explore the Sagrada Familia, marvel at Gaudi’s famous church, and navigate the narrow alleyways of this majestic city. Guided Meditation is a powerful way of boosting your visualization skills and helping you reduce those nagging feelings of worry and fear. Once you start, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it!

Are you thinking about a vacation in Spain? Do you want to be well prepared and well informed, so that you can get the most out of your experience? Spain is a marvelous country, packed with history, great tourist resorts, an interior that boasts epic natural beauty and people who are warm and welcoming. Now you can share in everything that Spain has to offer, with Discover Spain: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Exploring Spain Like a Local.

Whether you’re planning on traveling to Spain or just want to learn another language, this audiobook guides you toward learning a basic to intermediate level of Spanish.

When you download Spain: Essential Travel Tips - All You Need to Know, you will be well-prepared to visit the country of your dreams!

Spain: Spain is a country that is filled with a lot of delightful restaurants. Whether you are a lavish spender or a traveler with a tight budget, you can easily find an eatery that will suit your tastes and preferences. Aside from the menu, the designs of these establishments are all carefully planned to make sure that everyone will have a pleasant dining experience. With more than 5,000 miles of breathtaking and sandy coastline, searching for a beach in this country can be a very easy task.

In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed.

Greater Than a Tourist - Madrid, Spain by Ana Alonso offers the inside scoop on Madrid. Most travel books tell you how to sightsee. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this book will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. Here, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip.

This guide was created as a quick start. It focuses on the essential and the special, the lodging, the regional food, sights and activities, the must-sees and must must-dos, and how to succeed at Spanish and build relationships.

Walking in the Pyrenees, twenty years ago, Matthew Parris and his sister came upon a magnificent medieval house. It had crests and a date, 1559, chiselled into the stone: its walls and foundations were intact but the ancient oak ridge timber supporting the roof had split and was ready to collapse into the rotten floors beneath. Renovation would be an epic undertaking, a massive investment of time, money and emotion. And, the locals warned, nobody ever left L'Avenc with any money.

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of midlife, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters, and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even the fair-haired man.

On a misty gray morning in the summer of 2018, Gordon Bernhardt set out from a small town in the French Pyrenees to walk the ancient pilgrim route of Camino de Santiago, seeking clarity for his business, his relationships, and his priorities in life. The lessons he learned as a peregrino—a pilgrim—ranged from insights on financial advising and investing to the importance of noticing the tiniest details of each day: like the ant trails winding across the path at his feet or the “smiling sunflower” that lightened his steps in the middle of a hot summer day.