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Visiting Spain is fun
Last month I traveled to Europe and I must say, I’m pretty amazed by that country. Sure they are going through loads and loads of problems at the moment, but nonetheless I still found some really nice people living there and they were all very kind on receiving us on their houses. I was also [...]
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Olive Oil from Spain
Over the past few years olive oil has been gaining wider and wider acceptance among the food elite both in the United States as well as abroad. Spain is of course, one of the largest and best producers of olive oil in the world. Since ancient times, the Spanish countryside has grown native olive trees. [...]
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Just Moved To The Sun In Madrid
My wife and I have just moved to Madrid, specifically because my wifes mother and father live here and they are getting into the latter stages of their life. My wife and her family are all Jews and she feels that she should help her dad more as he is getting older and his mobility [...]
A Spanish Catholic Christmas – A US Based Jews Experience
My cousins in Spain are devout Catholics. I had long known this was the case, but it wasn’t until I went to visit them near Madrid one Christmas that I realized just how central their religion was to their lives. Their home was fully done up in the spirit of the Christmas season. I don’t [...]