Over at SDN, we're doing a blog topic of the week thing. This week's topic is "If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go? What would you do while there (activities, attractions, food, etc)?"

Seeing as we just got a couple of inches of snow dumped on us last night, the wind is swirling and the temperature is a miserable 9F, I know without a doubt I'd choose somewhere warm. However, I've never really been much of a beach person; I don't mind spending a couple of hours at the beach walking the shoreline, but I don't like to go to the beach just to go. I'm pale and burn easily and I don't really want skin cancer, so that leaves out sun-tanning. All kinds of scary creatures live in water that you can't see the bottom of, so I'm not a big ocean swimmer. And, frankly, I get hot and bored and cranky after a little while.

When I choose a vacation place normally, I tend to stick to places in the US - it's easy to fly or drive to, I don't have to worry about a different language and currency and I don't have to sit for long hours on a plane. But because this is (presumably) an all-expenses paid trip, I think I'd have to branch out a bit and make the ocean leap. So I'm going to pick Spain as my destination of choice.

Now: what to do?

One of my favoritest things ever is hiking, so I did a quick Google search of "hiking in Spain" and got back some amazing images! I would absolutely make the time to do a ton of hiking.

Next, I would want to find an Andalusian Horse breeding farm and go check out some stunning horses. Since this is fantasy world and all, I'd probably be allowed to ride the fanciest ones and then be offered a breeding to their prized stallion worth majillions of dollars.

After that, I would hit the historic sites. Cathedrals, abandonded ghost towns, cities, you name it.

With all of this touristy stuff behind me, I imagine I'd be feeling quite famished. So I'd go out and eat some delicious Spanish cuisine.

Exhausted from running all around the country, I'd retire back to my hotel/villa/mansion and probably write a blog post about it all. And then, just maybe, I will go to the beach. They don't seem all that bad...