Catalonia

After my first course submission for 2022, I decided to go for my first solo trip of the year and so I booked a flight to Barcelona. I gave myself around 4 days there, but I wasn’t just confined to the city itself. I also did a few day trips…

The receding Covid-19 pandemic is letting us catch a breath of fresh air, and the WindMill project members didn’t want to miss this opportunity to fill the lungs with the salty air of Catalonia. In fact, in the first week of March, the WindMill fellows met in the stunning city…

One of my earliest memories is of seeing the Easter Bunny. I was four, and the Bunny had come to my kindergarten to hide chocolate eggs in the garden amongst the shrubbery. I was convinced I had caught him (or her) unawares, and was giddy at my discovery. …

How Isidro Llusá y Casanovas stopped Napoleon’s advancement in northern Spain — The battle of “El Bruch” was not really a battle, but a kind of encounter where Napoleon’s army, terrified and frightened by the possibility of being ambushed in Montserrat, decided to escape. It was the first time Napoleon’s army lost a battle before it started, all thanks to a young…

Ever since my trip to Switzerland back in the fall of 2018, I realized I was about to be done with traveling blindly to all over the places…

Spain’s ex police chief said the National Intelligence Center (CNI) facilitated 2017 “ISIS” attacks to “scare” Catalonia before an independence vote. The leader of the terror cell was a CNI informant. A blockbuster story is rocking Spanish politics: The former commissioner of Spain’s national police has testified in court that…

I touched down in Paris three days ago to a semi-sunny scene. My dog was ecstatic to be out of the kennel he was in for 14 hours in the luggage compartment. …