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Sunny Spain!

 I love roundabouts.  No one has more roundabouts than Spain.  Really I saw a list.  I went to Alicante Spain, number four on the list.  It was dizzying.   I went to Spain with Karen for her birthday.  that's how we celebrate.  get out of town.  it was a last minute trip so I had a to juggle a bit.  I landed in Madrid on my own and took myself on a little walking tour.  there's nowhere better to soak in culture than Europe.  Everything is 1000 years old if not older.  churches, palaces, plazas, markets, espresso.  then of course in Spain you have dead bulls.   I want to talk about the Monasterio Del Corpus Christi and the secret cookies.  Picture the scene.  a sweaty tired American tourist is walking down a cobble stone street.  It's a sunny day but shadows abound in the closed in alley.  is this the right place?  Google maps says yes, but there's no sign but for some cryptic wr...