El Barco de Ávila, Spain Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Our European Adventure 2018
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- Jun 1, 2018, 2:18pm
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Altitude: 3,350 ft
- Spain Castille and León Barco de Ávila, El El Barco de Ávila 40.3576, -5.52343440°21’27” N 5°31’24” W
Day 31
Vaughan Town, El Barco de Avila
June 1, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
We’ve spent the past 6 days volunteering for Vaughan Town, an English Immersion program for Spaniards. We’ve met such wonderful people: the participants, the staff, and the other volunteers. It’s very impressive how dedicated the Spaniards are in their efforts to improve their communication in English! We had a great time and made many new friends.

As volunteers, we spent time talking one-to-one with each person, had meals together, participated in group activities, and practiced telephone communication as well. In addition, there was an entertainment hour every evening, composed of skits, presentations, and music, in which we all participated at some point. We got to see some real Spanish dancing, and Dean was involved as part of the “Spice Girls” band. We even received certificates at the end of the program!Read more
Traveler Wonderful.......I was going to do that but they told me if I did it would set the Spaniards back 50 years in their English 😂 Thank you for your volunteer work
6/2/18Reply
Your experiences are priceless. Keep having fun.
6/3/18Reply
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Traveler Our European Adventure 2018
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- Jun 1, 2018, 4:00pm
- ⛅ 64 °F
- Altitude: 3,353 ft
- Spain Castille and León Barco de Ávila, El El Barco de Ávila 40.356906, -5.52367540°21’25” N 5°31’25” W
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Day 31
El Barco de Avila
June 1, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
The area is beautiful: snow-capped mountains, a river, and a small town with a castle and church topped with nesting storks! With as many storks as we've seen, it's hard to believe they are protected. They are messy and people don't want them building nests on their chimneys, so places are provided for them to nest.Read more
Traveler Church of the Assumption of Our Lady
6/4/18Reply
Traveler Beautiful. The weather looks nice too. What an experience!
6/4/18Reply
Traveler Actually, that was one of the nicest days here! It's been much cloudier and we are getting rain quite often-it's an usually cool and wet spring. But we love it!
6/5/18Reply
Traveler The hotel in which Vaughan Town happens!
6/5/18Reply
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Traveler Our European Adventure 2018
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- Jun 8, 2018, 2:00pm
- ⛅ 59 °F
- Altitude: 3,287 ft
- Spain Castille and León Barco de Ávila, El El Barco de Ávila 40.358676, -5.52806940°21’31” N 5°31’41” W
Day 38
Vaughan Town 2, Barco de Avila
June 8, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Week 2 of Vaughan Town completed. Another wonderful group of Spaniards, volunteers, and staff got together to have a life-changing experience. We found it very heartwarming to have such a close connection with so many people in such a short period of time. There were volunteers from Australia, Canada, England, Sweden, and the US, (and Wales in the first week). The Spaniards had to decipher all those accents and ways of speaking, and it was amazing how much they improved in just 6 days!

Anglos are encouraged to do a presentation if we want to. Dean presented information on the Buffalo Roundup in Custer State Park and I led a line dance. Everyone seemed to enjoy both activities!

Note: Barco de Avila is known as a region for growing organic legumes. We ate some during the week, cooked with chorizo, and they were delicious!Read more
Traveler It's been a pleasure meeting both of you. You make a sweet couple and both of you are awesome. Hope you keep having fun around Europe.
6/11/18Reply
I loved that dance, it was so fun...thank you for that great week . Gema Martin
6/11/18Reply
Traveler Thank you both! We really enjoyed meeting you! Best wishes for a great future!
6/12/18Reply
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- Jun 2, 2018, 7:00pm
- 🌧 18 °C
- Altitude: 3,314 ft
- Spain Castille and León Barco de Ávila, El El Barco de Ávila 40.36048, -5.5275140°21’38” N 5°31’39” W
Day 19
3500ft up and the little car did well
June 2, 2018 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
And the old driver wasn't too bad either!
I think we must have climbed at least 2,500ft in the rain with steaming roads ...good practice for the. Pyrenees.
N B This post is one day late as it covers Fridays trip from the Castle Estremoz to El Barco d'avila. The N110 we are following is a spectacular drive on great road surface. We passed through Elvas which is a world heritage site...see the amazing aqueduct...also the town is a walled city. The hotel at El Barco didn't look so great but it's location is lovely....Roman bridge and castle surrounded by mountains. Also on this route we followed the cherry growing centre of Spain...now feeling very sick from my 1kilo purchase!Read more
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