Category Archives: MADRID & CENTRAL
For restaurants, customs in Spain are different. Here are eleven restaurant rules to make travel easier...
By admin | Published: September 12, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Canaries, featured, Food, Food, Food, Food, Food, Formentera, ISLANDS, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged butter, customs in Spain, restaurant rules
A frog as a hot topic for another beautiful city in Spain? Robin Graham, our guest writer from Tarifa thinks...
Your Scoopettes, Regina and I love a good flea market. We get up early...
By admin | Published: September 5, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Shop, Shop, Shop, Shop | Tagged BARCELONA & EAST, bargains, blogdog, flea markets, GRANADA, MADRID & CENTRAL, markets, SEVILLE & SOUTH, SHOPPING IN SPAIN, spending money in spain
Bonfires blaze all night on plazas and beaches. Devils run with long poles spewing fire...
By admin | Published: June 2, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, PHOTOS & VIDEOS, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged barcelona, BILBAO, dragons, fire, GRANADA, parades, photo scoop no. 14, San juan festival, seville
The Scoop: Festival Events In Spain
By admin | Published: May 31, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Canaries, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Formentera, Ibiza, ISLANDS, Mallorca, Menorca, More Cool Islands, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged arts, BARCELONA & EAST, dance, festivals, GRANADA, horo, june, madrid, music, seville, VALENCIA
Traveling in Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, or Seville and want to take a gift back to Aunt Millie...
By admin | Published: May 17, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Canaries, Formentera, Ibiza, ISLANDS, Mallorca, Menorca, More Cool Islands, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Shop, Shop, Shop, Shop, Shop | Tagged aioli, chocolate, flea markets, gifts, ham, in spain, MALLORCA, matador travel, pottery, shop, SHOPPING IN SPAIN, Spain euro
Sites to check for cheapo travel in Spain. These are a few we use!
By admin | Published: May 15, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, ISLANDS, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Stay, Stay, Stay, Stay, Stay, Tours & Classes, Tours & Classes, Tours & Classes, Tours & Classes, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation | Tagged Atrapalo.com, Budget Travel, eurocheapo.com, Rumbo.es, Sixt.es, spain
Life is short and must be lived to the fullest. Here's my list of things to see, do, learn, experience in SPAIN!
By admin | Published: April 27, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Camino de Santiago Hike, Canaries, Destinations, Destinations, Destinations, Destinations, Destinations, Formentera, Ibiza, ISLANDS, Mallorca, Menorca, More Cool Islands, MORE SCOOP, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged Bucket List 2012, Cabo de Gata, paradores
Tips for country hopping from Spain...Where do you want to go next?
By admin | Published: April 14, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation | Tagged athens, BILBAO, birraritz, catamaran, dublin, eurail, france, greece, Italy, morocco, portugal, robin graham, saint jean de luz, San Sebastian, tangier, tenerifa
The Easter Rabbit does not hippety-hop down the bunny trail for people in Spain so the godparents tote the load...
By admin | Published: April 8, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, Festivals & Holidays, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged chocolate, Easter, GRANADA, Malaga, Semana Santa, SEVILLE & SOUTH
The Scoopettes remind you of the extraordinary Easter processions of Semana Santa in Granada, Madrid and Seville.
By admin | Published: April 2, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, Entertainment, Events, Festivals & Holidays, MORE SCOOP, SEVILLE & SOUTH | Tagged arts and science center, barcelona, Bilboa, CatagenaDona Casilda Park, GRANADA, Hellin, MADRID & CENTRAL, maria luisa park, Murillo Park, Reitro Park, Santiago Calatrava, Semana Santa, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Turia Gardens, VALENCIA, Vallodolid
Should you fly, ride the train, or take the bus? Or maybe....
By admin | Published: March 14, 2012
Also posted in BARCELONA & EAST, BILBAO & NORTH, ISLANDS, SANTIAGO & WEST, SEVILLE & SOUTH, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation, Transportation | Tagged airplanes, ave, buses, Renfe, spain train, travel in spain, vueling
Every ex-pat gets the blues, misses family and friends and wonders what the hell were...
An Unsettling Tradition: Impressions of My First Bullfight