Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not being a golf person I was impressed by the tree sculptures and that a royal palace was built in the 20th century. As always your walks are very enjoyable. On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:08?PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > My last business trip before the summer break was a short visit to > Santander in northern Spain earlier this week to participate in a > roundtable at the Universidad Internacional Menend?z Pelayo, part of a > week-long summer school session organised every year by the Spanish IP > office. I flew there on Sunday evening, stayed in a hotel near the beach, > gave my talk at the university on Monday morning and took a train back to > Alicante around lunchtime (no flights in the afternoon, so a rather long 7 > hour train ride was the only option to get back on Monday). So my > sight-seeing was limited to a couple of hours on Sunday evening, and a 1 > 1/2 km walk from my hotel to the site of the event on Monday morning. > Still, I saw enough to conclude that Santander is a beautiful place. I have > often heard people here say that the cities in northern Spain are much > nicer than the coastal cities here in the south of the country, mainly > because they are much less affected by mass tourism. Certainly, based on > what I saw in Santander, this is true. > > A short gallery of 30 images, mostly from the area around the beach, and > the Palacio de la Magdalena, a palace built around 100 years ago as a royal > summer residence, today a conference centre and the site of the university > summer school where I spoke. The magnificent dining room in one of the > images towards the end is actually where the roundtable discussion took > place. > > Have a look here: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Santander-July-2024 > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com