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 […]
Spain
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 […]
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 […]
