Happy (late) Easter to everyone. This year for Easter we didn’t get to have any chocolate eggs or bunnies, since they’re pretty scarce in Spain, but we did get to enjoy the celebrations Spanish style which is to watch the processions. The processions start a week before Easter Sunday and take place every evening/night right […]
Travel Updates
Las Fallas: A Festival for Pyromaniacs
Valencia has an awesome festival that they run each year called Las Fallas. Each neighbourhood puts together enormous gravity-defying sculptures of wood, wax and foam which are then burnt a few days later. Each neighbourhood spends the whole year designing, preparing and making the individual parts of the overall sculpture (or falla) and then on […]
Chasing the Winter
First up, we’re safe and sound in Spain still. Far away from the horrible attacks in Brussels. We’ve seen quite a few heavily armed police around keeping an eye on things. It’s been a while since the last post and we’ve been to lots of places since then: Salamanca, Segovia, Avila, Toledo, Madrid, El Escorial […]
Roman Ruins and Getting Lost in Caceres
We’ve moved north from Andalucia to Extremadura, to visit the towns of Merida and Caceres which are famous for Roman ruins and medieval town centres. While we were wandering around the town of Caceres we spotted a bunch of signs with a shell symbol and/or an arch. No words, just symbols. Each of these signs […]
Seville, Almost Has It All
Seville is pretty awesome apart from one thing, the toilet situation. Can’t flush paper down the toilet, so it has to go in the bin. Which you then have to carry down to the street to put in the public rubbish chutes. It was also in Seville that I discovered that there is such thing as […]
