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Category Archives: Exploring
Place-Based Education on Paradise Island
During the carnival on Lastovo I had a startling realization: I didn’t need to leave! At least not yet. I had initially been planning (a relative term) to leave Lastovo the day after the carnival, but I realized at that point that … Continue reading
Posted in Croatia, Exploring
Tagged adventure, alternative education, beauty, carnival, children, croatia., dance, education, folk, friends, fun, incredible, island, islands, lastovo, learning, music, philosophy, photo, school, sword, sword dance, tradition, travel, vacation, watson, watson fellowship
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Torino, Venice, Split and More! Jeremy Catches Up and Sees Awesome Stuff!
So I need to be catching up in this blog. Therefore this will be another slideshow entry, but it’s still really cool, right? Basically this is covering from the end of the carnival in Rocca Grimalda, traveling to Torino, Venice, … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring, Italy, Travel
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Pigs Bladders, Italians and Horny Bears: Rapper Sword Dancing and a Basque Carnival!
The day after the carnival in Zubieta I had the pleasure of traveling to Donostia (That would be San Sebastian in Spanish) to teach rapper to a group there. I took a bus from Eibar and got to look around … Continue reading
Posted in Basque Country, Exploring
Tagged adventure, band, basque, basque country, carnival, children, cider, dance, dancing, drink, explore, festival, folk, food, friends, fun, incredible, italians, italy, masks, music, photo, photography, traditional, travel, watson, watson fellowship
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A Basque Carnival: No Sword Dancing, But Perhaps Some Swords!
After a brief hitch-hiking experience I was able to get out of the town and back into less rural surroundings. By a few days later I was in Madrid pondering where I wanted to head next. One of the (very … Continue reading
Posted in Basque Country, Exploring
Tagged adventure, basque, basque country, colorful hats, dancing, drink, festival, folk, food, garlic soup, guggenheim museum in bilbao, photo, photography, sword dances, sword dancing, trad, traditional, travel, watson fellowship
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Back to Basque! An Appeal for Help and Photos
I promised that my next post would be about the sword dance during the festival of San Sebastian in Villanueva, but I wanted to ask you all for information. Yesterday I took the bus from Madrid, where I had spent … Continue reading
Posted in Basque Country, Exploring
Tagged basque, basque country, dance, explore, help, money, photo, sword, sword dance, sword dancing, watson fellowship
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Bullfighting in Madrid: The Wrong Kind of Sword Dance
[WARNING: This post contains GRAPHIC IMAGES of Bullfighting] Bullfighting. Not something that I had ever really thought of going to, but that’s where I was headed. As I hadn’t been able to stay with a couchsurfer in Madrid, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring, Spain
Tagged animals, bull fighting, bullfight, dance, food, madrid, spain, spanish, travel, watson fellowship
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Tango in Madrid: A Sword Dancer takes on the Big City
I never seem to be fully rested, fed, and prepared when Mr. Murphy and his stupid law decide to come for a call. With the short message, “I’m sorry, i thought i hadnt acepted u! my heads all in a … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring, Spain
Tagged adventure, beauty, dance, madrid, music, photo, photography, spain, tango, tourism, travel, watson fellowship
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How I Wasn’t Attacked by a Wild Boar: A Performance Art Piece with a Really Really Big Jesus
Jesus wasn’t terribly hard to find at all. I forgot that in the battle of the statues, a enormous Jesus would look down on everything from the top of the mountains overlooking the town, so we quickly won that game of hide … Continue reading
Big Brother is Watching the Statues: Woody Allen’s Oviedo
I traveled by bus to Bilbao, played some banjo and then caught the bus to Oviedo. My friend Sarah met me at the bus station with a big hug and an offer to carry my banjo. We set off down the … Continue reading
Posted in Exploring, Spain
Tagged animals, cider, drink, food, humor, nature, oviedo, park, photos, spain, statues, tourist, travel, watson fellowship, watson fellowship blog, woody allen
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Chain Sword Dancing in Marin! Also, Sevilla was splendid, but Travel was Terrible!
Time to travel halfway across Spain to see some sword dancing! My plan for the day was an ambitious one; I would bus to Huelva and then Sevilla (Seville), where I would drop my stuff at the house of a … Continue reading
