When you visit a place like Seville, most of the travel recommendations will fall into two categories: sightseeing (such as getting a look at the Seville Cathedral, or the Alcazar, made particularly famous by Game Of Thrones), or cultural experience (such as eating tapas or visiting the various museums). These can certainly occupy the curious […]
The Best Way to Get From Seville to Granada If you’re visiting Southern Spain, chances are you’ll want to check out Seville and Granda. These are the two main cultural hotspots of the region. There are a few of ways to get there. By train, bus, ride share, or private transfer. We believe that there […]
The Best Places to Watch Flamenco in Seville When you hear people talk about flamenco, you will often hear the word duende thrown about. This is a word with no exact translation, but what they are referring to is the spirit of the performance; the passion on display. No one knows for sure where flamenco […]
If there’s one year which is of the most significance to Seville, it’s 1929. This is the year of the Ibero-American exhibition; an event which the city prepared for for two decades. A whole new area of the city was created, giving birth to many of the best things to see/do in Seville, and the […]
Keep Cool in the Top 10 Plazas in Seville for Summer As you walk around Seville, you will find a city made up of tight streets spilling out into beautiful plazas. This style of city planning developed as the best way to keep the town cool in the unbearably hot summers. The shady streets funnelling […]
What you’ll see on a Granada day trip from Seville Granada is a breathtakingly beautiful place perched at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Although small, it gets more visitors per year than almost any other Spanish city for one key reason; its famed Alhambra palace. We will get to the Alhambra, but there […]
If you’re from a temperate country, the idea of going somewhere ridiculously hot may well appeal to you. In fact, the weather in Seville was one of the key features in this writer choosing to move to the city! However, all roses have their thorns; and the weather of Seville can turn into a drawback […]
If you walk around the streets of Seville at the end of May you will be struck by two things. Your primary thought will be how perfect the weather is. But once you’re done admiring the weather, you’ll turn your attention to all the decorations being put up everywhere and start to wonder what they’re […]
Triana is one of the most famous suburbs of Seville. An area with a fascinating past, and its own unique culture, as alive today as it ever was. Crossing the Triana bridge to the river’s left bank can feel like more than just crossing into a new neighbourhood, but crossing a threshold into a new […]
Gibraltar is a fascinating place. Although not even three square miles (less than seven square kilometres), it has a population of 32,000 people; this makes it the fifth most densely populated territory in the world. Further to this it has seen countless wars and skirmishes between nations trying to claim it for themselves. The majority […]
