Posts in Category: Spain
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Cordoba – A Tour of Spain’s Moorish Capital
It’s a beautiful morning in Cordoba, Spain and after a great night’s sleep at the fabulous Balcon de Cordoba hotel Alison and I are about to explore some of the famous landmarks of the city including the Alcazar, the Calahorra Tower and the Roman Bridge. We’ll save the Mezquita or Grand Mosque for it’s own […]
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Balcon de Cordoba – A Must Stay in Cordoba
This is the first of three posts on the wonderful city of Cordoba, Spain which we visited, almost on a whim in November 2015. Posts will follow on a walk around the historic city and the almost unbelievable Mezquita, but this one will focus on one of the best hotels we have stayed at anywhere, […]
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Ronda – Where Modern Bullfighting Began
Alison and I are heading by car for Cordoba, our final destination on our whirlwind tour of Andalusia, from Marbella where we have spent the last three nights basically just chilling out. Along the way we are going to visit a small city that has been on my radar list for a very long time […]
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Frigiliana – Visiting Andalusia’s Pueblos Blancos
We’ve spent the past few days in the town of Nerja on the Costa del Sol and are now headed into the Andalusian mountains to visit one of the pueblos blancos or ‘white towns’ that the region is famous for. Frigiliana is not far from Nerja and is reckoned to be one the prettiest of […]
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Caves of Nerja – Simply Phantasmagorical
Before coming to Spain on this trip to Andalusia I had never heard of the caves of Nerja. I certainly knew that Spain was quite famous for the Altamira caves with their Paleolithic cave art drawings, but they were far up north, just back of the Bay of Biscay. We were in the resort town of Nerja on […]
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Nerja – Best Town on the Costa del Sol?
We’ve just spent four days exploring the amazing city of Granada, Spain and are now headed to our next destination – the town of Nerja on the Costa del Sol. Please read the six posts on this website to get a better understanding of why Granada should be on everyone’s bucket list, especially the one […]
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Alhambra in Granada- Visiting the Nasrid Palaces
We’ve been in Granada, Spain for two full days now and we’ve yet to visit the Alhambra Spain. We’ve looked at it at night from above sitting on the third floor patio of our apartment in the Albaicin. And we’ve looked at it from below, walking up the Carrera del Darro. This morning we are […]
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Alhambra Palace – Tips for Enjoying Your Visit
In my last post Alison and I finished up our walk around Granada and I promised that the next one would take us to the Alhambra Palace. I’m going to renege a bit on that promise by first putting up this post on how to prepare for and get the most out of a visit to […]
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Granada – Explore It on Foot Part II
In the previous post I told readers why renting an audio tour of Granada Spain was, in my opinion, probably the best way to explore the city on foot over a two day period. In that post we got as far as the Capilla Real and the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella. In this post we’ll […]