Posts by: Yve

 

Marrakech: My Perspective….So Far :)

 •  December 6

It was my first official day in Marrakech 😉 After breakfast our Riad host generously took us out into the labyrinth of winding alleyways filled...

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Bullfighting

 •  November 19

Although guys in tights wearing bejeweled suits killing innocent bulls with their grace and skill all nonchalant may not be as entertaining as...

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Ham is a culture

 •  November 14

The sun is shining exuberantly while down below in the southwestern part of Spain black Iberian pigs are roaming lazily about satiating their hunger...

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Spanish Guitar Music

 •  November 8

It was a normal day in Barcelona. We were walking through the streets—the light emanating in sporadic, awkward places, the walls sagging from the...

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The Two Davids

 •  November 6

Barcelona is littered with sculptures of all shapes and sizes. As you aimlessly walk the streets trying yet failing to keep your sense of direction...

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Park Güell

 •  October 28

A big part of why my parents decided to disentangle us from our routine, conventional lives and haul us across the globe for a year is so we could...

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Hang Ten Crete!

 •  October 17

One would think that Crete is a paradisiacal home where surfers abound. Alas, that wasn’t exactly the case. It seemed to be that surfing was an...

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Book Club Continues

 •  October 9

Finishing the Art of Happiness, we have now moved into a more somber and gloomy topic: the Holocaust. The book we were to read was Night by Elie...

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Minoans

 •  October 5

The Bronze Age. People usually picture hairy, uncivilized, grotesque-looking cavemen grunting about at each other and throwing rocks around...

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Houses of Oia

 •  September 28

Over breakfast, looking out at the sparkling, crystal blue of the water and the horizon that seemed to stretch on forever, Mom pronounced that this...

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