Posts in Tag: 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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Gibraltar Part 2 – Caves, Tunnels and a Flogging
In my previous post I described the first half of the day Alison and I spent exploring the Rock of Gibraltar. The cable car ride, the view from the top of the rock, the encounters with the endlessly entertaining monkeys and the dubious decision to descend the Mediterranean Steps are all part of that post. When […]
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Rock of Gibraltar – Fantastic Views & Barbary Apes
I’ve been very remiss in writing about the day Alison and I spent exploring the Rock of Gibraltar. We did it on a reasonably warm day in November, 2015 and it turned out to be one of the most interesting days we’ve ever spent exploring together. Combine the excitement of the cable car ride to […]
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City of Gibraltar – Here’s Why It’s A Surprise Tourist Destination
In my previous post I explained why Alison and I, pretty well on a whim, decided to visit the British colony of Gibraltar after spending a few days in Nerja. We are staying at the wonderful Rock Hotel, just above the cable car station to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar and tomorrow we will […]
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Gibraltar – Totally Different than Expected
The last four posts on our spur of the moment trip to the Spanish province of Andalusia have focused on the area around the small and very nice town of Nerja on the eastern end of the Costa del Sol. Now it’s time to move on, but to where? I’m poring over the map of southern […]
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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 […]