Andalusia

Spanish coach tour all aboard for Andalusia

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

No decisions no bags to handle - and all of Andalusia unrolling through the window. Anthony Peregrine is won over on his first coach holiday.

End of Day 1 - Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands Hola, estoy en Cadiz!! I'm finally here in Cadiz after a very long 2 days of traveling. I've adjusted well to the time becuase I didn't sleep for 2 days and then arrived here at 1am. making it easy to fall asleep and get on the Cadiz schedule. Talking only in Spanish is definetly is a struggle. Sometimes I feel weird...

Andalusia Deep Seating at Garden Architects Washington DC

Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

If we has these deep chaise lounges in a garden, we would never need to leave home to escape. The deep, wide cushions invite us to sink in while the canopy assures us we can lounge safely in the shade... Made of handcast aluminum and water repellent Sunbrella fabrics, the Andalusia collection is available at Garden Architects . No prices are available on the website which is usually a bad sign,...

Erotic Love Poetry in the Alhambra - Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands Granada is beautiful and its main tourist site, the Alhambra, is an impressive mini-city/fortress that protected the Muslim state of Granada until 1492 when Isabella and Ferdinand's army finally conquered the city.  The story of the Alhambra is much more about Arab life in Spain than about Jews, so we took...

Tarifa, Spain - Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain "No Hay Mas Barato." Said Lurch. 75 Euro for an appalling room. What a shit box. Beach is nice but. As is the food and the inhabitants on the beachs. The beautiful people.

Spain again - Seville, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Seville, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands The Land Rover Crew stop in the beautiful Andalucian town for some sightseeing, cold beer and tapas...we love life, don't we!

Andalusia, Balearic Islands to get e-prescribing

ICMCC Newspage (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

“Two Spanish regions will adopt electronic prescribing solutions as part of a 1.35 million-euro initiative to improve healthcare services.” Article Chip Means, Healthcare IT News Europe, 22 August 2008

Granada, Spain - Granada, Andalusia, Spain

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Granada, Andalusia, Spain It's hot. Few beers, not doing much. Didn't even make it to Al Humbra. Lame. Went to leave for our bus to Algeciras for a ferry. Forgot the passports. Got them though. Tim lost half his possesions, His bag is almost empty. The amount of times he said "Oh no, I've lost my ____ too," today on the bus, was comical.

Iberian Tour - day 3 - Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Tarifa, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands We headed out early to get to Tarifa at a reasonable time to so that those going to Morocco would have time to catch the ferry over.    The countryside is beautiful and so different everytime you wake up from a nap!  From mountains to fields of sunflowers to 1000s of olive trees.  It is quite...

Iberian Tour - day 1 and 2 - Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands August 17, 2008: Today I started my last leg of my journey with Busabout.  I started a 7 day tour of southern Spain and Portugal.  The group is fairly large at 31 people, but after the first day it was already a different dynamic than my Greek Island tour... mainly because there were more solo travellers...

Do-It-Yourself Judaism, Russian-Style: Day 3 in Co - Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands We paid homage to Maimonides at his statue in the Juderia, the old Jewish quarter of Cordoba.  In the 10th century, when Cordoba was at its height of influence in the Muslim world, there were 30 synagogues in the city, of which only one remains.  We wandered through the synagogue, noted that the Hebrew...

Morocco: Authorities break up jihadist network calling itself "Conquest of Andalusia"

Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

... attacks in Algeria. "The members of this structure, known as "Fath al-Andalous" [Conquest of Andalusia], planned to carry out attacks in Morocco and had formed operational links with foreign extremists who have pledged allegiance to the al-Qaeda organisation," MAP says. The BBC's James Copnall in Morocco says this is almost certainly a reference to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (QIM),...

• Morocco dismantles ‘terrorist network’: police - Egypt News
• Morocco breaks up cell linked to al Qaeda -agency - Alertnet
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Countering the Dhimmi Version of History

The Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

H ere's a vid on what is commonly referred to in the Western media as the realm of "obscure Emperors" ... Hat Tip: Chris Triffid at Facebook Group "Europe's Renaissance came from Byzantium, not Islamic Andalusia!"