spain – Rae Dunn

barcelona.

Rae — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:15:42 +0000

spain is one of my top favorite countries. i love the lifestyle and the food. here are a few snippets of our recent trip there.

we stayed in our friend’s apartment which is so BEAUTIFUL and so centrally located. it was very relaxing and i felt like we actually lived there. YOU can rent their apartment right here.

we took a paella cooking class ! so fun and delicious. paella is one of my favorite things to eat. we also learned how to make a mean SANGRIA !

i can not go to a new place without noticing the LAUNDRY !

i’m also always aware of the graffiti. i’d have to say that barcelona has some of the best graffiti i have ever seen.

friday field trip (from the sketch book).

Rae — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:27:00 +0000

costa brava, spain.

2005

in 2005 i biked through northern spain, what a beautiful part of the world. spain is definitely one of my top 3 favorite countries. this was lunch at a very charming restaurant called CAN QUEL, which we just happened to stumble upon. this is my favorite type of meal. so simple yet so delicious.

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:29:00 +0000

northern spain.

july 2005

spain is my favorite country. i love the richness of the people, the culture, the food, the landscape, the colours, . . . i am 1/4 spanish and every time i visit spain, i feel such a deep connection with the land. almost like i belong there. i hope to someday live in spain, or at least have a house there that i could visit frequently. very frequently.

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:40:00 +0000

i found an amazing town in girona, spain called ullastret. and IN this town was the MOST amazing restaurant called el fort. it was super quaint and the food was phenomenal. and IN this great restaurant was an amazing waitress. i leave my word stones all over the world in hopes that people will find find them in the most obscure places. but, occasionally, i will leave one in an obvious place. this place was on top of our waitress’s tip.

FIVE years later, this waitress found me on facebook and still has the rock that i left her ! her name is nuria gil and she now lives in England. she said that she carries that rock with her everywhere she moves to.

the word was “hope.”

girona, spain

2004

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:44:00 +0000

malaga, spain

april 1993

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:47:00 +0000

the coffee in spain is really really delicious.

spain

july 2005

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:08:00 +0000

malaga, spain

1993

friday field trip (from the sketchbook).

Rae — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:31:00 +0000

two of my great passions in life are traveling and sketching, which equals many many travel sketchbooks. it all started in spain in 1993. while traveling on a train, my camera was stolen out of my backpack. i began to sketch in my journal just so i could capture certain things that i wanted to remember. my journal eventually turned into a sketchbook. all of my sketches are done really quickly, literally in seconds, and i actually find that my best sketches are done in a moving vehicle like a car or even while riding a bike.

every friday i am going to post a page from one of my travel sketchbooks. that way, even if i can’t go on a weekend journey physically, i can mentally.

(click on the image to enlarge)

barcelona, spain

24 july 1993