Dobleve

Brian and Shannon’s adventures

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Month: January, 2008

Places to stay in Granada - Brian

30 January, 2008 (03:35) | Granada, Travel | No comments

We have friends ask all the time where to stay when they come to Granada. If the answer isn’t “with us!” then these are the places we like and our friends have liked too.
Casa Migueletes – We think this is the finest hotel in Granada. Its perfectly located in the Albayzin [...]

¿Doble Ve o Uve Doble? - Brian

28 January, 2008 (10:20) | Random | No comments

  What is the “dobleve” thing anyway, its a weird name for a website.  Besides lots of typos (one time causing us to “lose” our packages in the black hole of customs for a month because they had the wrong email address), we also get questions about why we chose this name for our site.  [...]

Odd searches - Brian

26 January, 2008 (09:17) | Granada | No comments

  One of the more interesting statistics that our web site collects is the search terms people used to find this site.  If you type in “brian shannon granada” for example you’ll find this site right away with Google and our web service will tell us that’s what you searched for that lead you here. [...]

Colds - Brian

22 January, 2008 (01:53) | Spain | No comments

I had a heck of a cold for the last few weeks of December, I lost my voice for the better part of one week along with it.  As I was recovering I was reminded of how different some aspects of health care are here.  

For things like colds you just go to the pharmacy, [...]

Please don’t eat all the vowels - Brian

18 January, 2008 (04:43) | Spain | No comments

Shannon and I recently went to the Dominican Republic for a vacation with my family to celebrate my mother’s 60th birthday.  When I returned home and got a taxi from the train station to our house I was reminded what a crazy language Spanish can be.  The rules for pronouncing words in Spanish are straightforward [...]

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