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Journey 001 / Spain

Barcelona
to Madrid.

Eleven days across the north of Spain on a school group tour—Barcelona's old quarter, the Basque coast, and the long way south over the meseta to Madrid, finishing with a day in Toledo.

June 9–19, 2014Bilbao, Basque Country

The shape of it

The first one, chaperoned, and the reason for all the rest.

A school group tour that flew into Barcelona and out of Madrid, moving by motorcoach with nights in Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos and Madrid, and a day given over to Toledo. No plan of Sean's own survives from it—there was nothing to preserve, because someone else had written it.

After

The photographs

A small edit from Barcelona, Pamplona, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Burgos, Segovia, Madrid and Toledo.