We first caught sight of Ávila zooming past it on the way to Salamanca. Only one word can adequately describe it: breathtaking. Lit up in the black night sky, the City’s…
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La Pedriza – Hiking in rare rain
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 18, 2016Madrid may not have a beach, but just a short drive north you can find La Pedriza in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range which provides a cool haven and…
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Skiing in Spain: brilliant Baqueira Beret
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016I fell in love with Baqueira Beret before I had even set a single ski on one of it is Pyrenean pistes. I love to ski, and have done since…
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Life in Spain, welcome to Mainly On the Plain
by ben@mainlyontheplain.com January 19, 2016The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain… (My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, 1956) It’s been my intention to write a blog about life…