{"id":393,"date":"2012-09-12T19:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angielazaro.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:59:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:59:18","slug":"travel-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angielazaro.com\/blog\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Travel: Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA version of this article appeared on Elle Deocoration<\/a>‘s site for their 25th Birthday International Issue. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Escaping the SA winter I headed to the warm lands of Spain. I sensed that this trip was going to be different \u2013 I was armed with a guidebook, my ancestry and Ernest Hemingway\u2019s e-book The Sun Also Rises<\/em> written in 1929 (about Pamplona\u2019s running with the bulls).
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\nTraveling in our hired car we left Barcelona and found our way through a picturesque country filled with historic towns. I never once put down my camera as we explored Sos del Rey Cat\u00f3lico in the province of Zaragoza and into Basque\u2019s Olite, Vitoria and Bilbao. <\/p>\n

This is a land where architects are celebrated, each new structure is a masterpiece, take Frank O. Gehry\u2019s post structuralist style with his spectacular Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and then to see his distinctive design at Marqu\u00e9s de Riscal wine estate, in Rioja and of course the Rioja wines, another experience to celebrate. <\/p>\n

With culture and history come the festivals, and the most famous is San Ferm\u00edn (the running of the bulls \u2013 the Enciero) in Pamplona. We were dressed in white with the traditional red scarf and sash. The first bull run of the week-long celebration happens at 8am, where testosterone congregates in the narrow streets as the bulls chase the crowd \u2013 people get trampled, knocked over and some get \u2018corneado\u2019 (horn injury). We didn\u2019t join that lot, though, but we lapped up the festivities and continuous party. <\/p>\n

Once we recovered we headed for the Costa Brava, Catalonia. We went beach hopping starting at Cadaqu\u00e9s and going southward. Imagine swimming in the azure Mediterranean with the historic 12th century Tossa de Mar castle on the highest point. We, of course, ate our way around the country feasting on several courses of croquetas, jam\u00f3n, chorizo, paella, fabada, tortilla de patata, sardines, pinxos, turr\u00f3n and tapas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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