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 […]
City Travel
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 […]
Andalucia, the Land of the Moops
We’ve been working our way around Andalucia for the last couple of weeks and it’s very easy to fall in love with the place. Food and accommodation are cheap and plentiful: we’ve stayed in a bunch of places for 35-40 euros per night for an apartment, and found tapas bars which give you free tapas […]
Into the Alhambra
It took a while but I finally got my Alhambra photos sorted, so here’s the results! We went to Sacromonte in Granada which is the old Gypsy area and you can see that all the old traditional cave houses are still there and being lived in, and you can even go inside some to check […]
Three Weeks In, Getting to Grips with Spain
We’re starting to get used to the way things work in Spain. You can’t expect things to go the way that you think they will, access to information depends on the mood of the person you ask. And if you’re told ‘yes’ or ‘no’ then that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s set in stone, and […]
