Westworld Alberta

Winter 2015

Westworld Alberta

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SAVE AND EARN WHEN YOU TRAVEL Did you know that AMA can help you save money with all your travel plans? From home insurance to how you spend abroad. Secure your home while away. Save $100 and earn $100 in reward dollars on the purchase of a new home security system from Reliance Protectron. AMARewards.ca/Reliance Save up to 20% on Hertz car rentals, plus earn $5 in reward dollars on weekly rentals and $25 in reward dollars on monthly rentals. AMARewards.ca/Hertz Escape the hustle and bustle of the airport. Plaza Premium Lounge offers comfortable seating, recharging stations, food and beverages, high speed Wi-Fi, VIP rooms, internet workstations, shower rooms and more. Save 20% on lounge entry. AMARewards.ca/Lounges Use your AMA card when heading to the airport. In Edmonton, save 20%, plus earn 3% in reward dollars at Park'N Fly. AMARewards.ca/ ParkNFly Flying out of Calgary? Save 15% on Park2Go airport parking. AMARewards.ca/ Park2Go An International Driving Permit provides you with an extra piece of photo identification, as well as a translation of your valid Canadian driver's licence into 10 different lan- guages. Visit an AMA centre to apply in-person, or go online to print a copy of the applica- tion form and mail it to your local AMA. ama.ab.ca/ InternationalPermit (clockwise from top left) Carrer del Sorrall street; a local butcher sharpens his knife; a typical building with paned windows in Arbucies; flauta de xocolata and ulleres pastries. 12 W E S T W O R L D A L B E R T A | W I N T E R 2 0 1 5 (both pages) saida valenzuela pozo Six months earlier, my wife and I had hatched a plan to check out of life in Canada, pack up the kids and immerse in another culture and language. Our criteria were simple: the destination had to fit our modest budget (we wanted accommodation costs to roughly match what we were earn- ing in rent from our home in Canada – roughly $1,000 per month.) We also sought a country with sunny and warm fall weather, and an accessible language. Our sights fell on Spain, which was affordable by European standards and also rich in culture and geography. After a few weeks of online research, we scored a rental for the first half of our trip in Arbucies, a working-class town so obscure that it didn't earn a single mention in the travel guides. Perfect. After a month there, we'd head to Lanjarón, a village in Andalucía – that rugged and sun-dappled region in southern Spain, for another month. Lisa and I had both travelled and worked in Europe before, but this was our first time in Spain. My knowledge of the country was sorely limited, acquired mostly from reading Ernest Heming- way's For Whom the Bell Tolls, watching FC Barcelona and Real Madrid battle it out in "El Clásico," as well as recent news reports of the country's crushing economic fortunes.

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