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Students and graduates looking for an adventure, look no further, had enough of college or university and now it's time to travel, if Spain's the place for you, read on for helpful advice of getting there and around.
Getting There & Away
Spain has many international airports, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Granada, Malaga, Almeria, Alicante, Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza. Bus and train travel are other good options and there are regular bus services to Spain from all major centres in Europe, including Lisbon, London and Paris. Travelling to Spain by train can be more expensive than by bus unless you are under 26 or have a rail pass. Ferry services connect Spain directly with the UK and Morocco. A departure tax applies when flying out of Spain, but this is included in the price of the ticket at purchase.
Getting Around
The only time you might seriously consider flying within Spain is to get out to the islands. From Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante, there are often good deals on charter flights. Ferries regularly connect the mainland with the Balearic Islands, but flying is a better value, considering the time saved. There are plenty of bus routes serviced by dozens of independent companies, and the bus network is more extensive than the train system and cheaper. Walking is the best way to meet the locals.
Further Reading
The New Spaniards by John Hooper, and Homage to Barcelona, by Colm T�ib�n, are both readable and fascinating accounts of Spanish society and culture.
For a readable and thorough - but not over-long - account of Spanish history, The Story of Spain by Mark Williams is hard to beat.
The 17th-century novel Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes is immensely popular, as are Federico Garcia Lorca's plays Blood Wedding and Yerma.
There's plenty of foreign literature set in Spain - the classic works include Laurie Lee's As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Ernest Hemingway's romantic civil war novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, his classic Americans-in-Europe novel The Sun Also Rises and his paean to bullfighting Death in the Afternoon.
For further information check out the Lonely Planet Guide
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