TRAVEL BLOG
Friday, April 09, 2010
Travel Photo: Bear and the Tree, Madrid - Spain
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Alicante Day Trips
This post has moved to Alicante Day Trips.
Labels: alicante, benidorm, cartagena, guadalest, guest-post, jijona, spain, valencia
Monday, December 21, 2009
Rock Star - Lanzarote On Location
Guest Post by Nick Ball
The small Canary Island of Lanzarote is currently enjoying a spell in the limelight as the latest release from Spanish director Pedro Almódovar - Broken Embraces - was shot on location around the island. The film highlights Lanzarote's unique volcanic scenery to great effect.

Lanzarote was subjected to one of the modern world's longest ever volcanic eruptions during the 1730's. The eruption lasted for six years - totally remodelling much of the interior of the island, destroying farms and villages and replacing them with lava fields and the exhausted peaks of spent volcanoes.

The terrain here is so surreal and dramatic that it's a natural choice for filmmakers. Science fiction classics such as One Million Years BC and Krull were shot against the eerie lunar like landscape.

Guest post by Nick Ball from Lanzarote Guidebook.
Find out more about this unique volcanic island and get your hands on a free guidebook by visiting the Lanzarote Guidebook website, where you can download the latest edition of their comprehensive island guide free of charge.
The small Canary Island of Lanzarote is currently enjoying a spell in the limelight as the latest release from Spanish director Pedro Almódovar - Broken Embraces - was shot on location around the island. The film highlights Lanzarote's unique volcanic scenery to great effect.

Lanzarote was subjected to one of the modern world's longest ever volcanic eruptions during the 1730's. The eruption lasted for six years - totally remodelling much of the interior of the island, destroying farms and villages and replacing them with lava fields and the exhausted peaks of spent volcanoes.

The terrain here is so surreal and dramatic that it's a natural choice for filmmakers. Science fiction classics such as One Million Years BC and Krull were shot against the eerie lunar like landscape.

Guest post by Nick Ball from Lanzarote Guidebook.
Find out more about this unique volcanic island and get your hands on a free guidebook by visiting the Lanzarote Guidebook website, where you can download the latest edition of their comprehensive island guide free of charge.
Labels: canary-islands, guest-post, lanzarote, spain
Friday, December 18, 2009
Travel Photo: Seville Cathedral, Seville - Spain
This post has moved to Seville Cathedral, Seville – Spain.
Labels: photo-gallery-2006, seville, spain
Monday, May 11, 2009
Spain Travel Blogs
Spain related travel blogs added to the travel blog directory:
allspainaccommodation.blogspot.com
A discussion point for all people who have visited Spain, or are planning on visiting. Leave your comments, queries, articles and stories of your Spanish experience here.
Spain Blogger
spainreview.blogspot.com
Stories and information about Spain.
Spain Review
Travel Directory: Spain Travel Blogs
allspainaccommodation.blogspot.com
A discussion point for all people who have visited Spain, or are planning on visiting. Leave your comments, queries, articles and stories of your Spanish experience here.
Spain Blogger
spainreview.blogspot.com
Stories and information about Spain.
Spain Review
Travel Directory: Spain Travel Blogs
Labels: spain, travel-blogs
Friday, March 27, 2009
Travel Photo: Mezquita, Cordoba - Spain
This post has moved to: Mezquita, Cordoba – Spain
Labels: church, cordoba, mosque, photo-gallery-2006, spain
Monday, November 24, 2008
What does Franco look like?
Melilla, Spain, sort of.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Strait of Gibraltar
Friday, November 14, 2008
Intercontinental Ferry Travel
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Is it time to end La Tomatina?
La Tomatina is the giant tomato fight held in the town of Buñol in Spain on the last Wednesday of every August. It has become an immensely popular event, but is it appropriate to continue a food fight festival while in some countries food shortages and prices have produced food riots?
At a time of rising global food prices, where food riots have broken out from Haiti to Egypt to Indonesia, What kind of message does this send to the world that struggles to feed itself. It might only be 100 metric tons of tomatoes that is used, but the event serves as a potent symbol of western excess.
La Tomatina began in 1944 or 1945, no one knows exactly when or how it started. While Europe was slugging it out in WWII the town of Buñol began slugging each other with tomatoes.
Not that life in Franco's Spain was a picnic. Who wouldn't want join in a food fight to let off some steam? Franco actually banned it because it had no religious significance, but it was reintroduced in the 1970's.
Today the La Tomatina legend has grown to become an international event that is listed in Things To Do Before You Die type lists and has even featured on a credit card advertisement.
La Tomatina though is not a festival suited to the age of mass tourism, where budget airline loads of tourists can do Spain for the weekend and tick another festival from the been there, done that list.
This is not to say there shouldn't be large messy festivals. Visit India during Holi to see how joyous a messy festival can be.
At a time of rising global food prices, where food riots have broken out from Haiti to Egypt to Indonesia, What kind of message does this send to the world that struggles to feed itself. It might only be 100 metric tons of tomatoes that is used, but the event serves as a potent symbol of western excess.
La Tomatina began in 1944 or 1945, no one knows exactly when or how it started. While Europe was slugging it out in WWII the town of Buñol began slugging each other with tomatoes.
Not that life in Franco's Spain was a picnic. Who wouldn't want join in a food fight to let off some steam? Franco actually banned it because it had no religious significance, but it was reintroduced in the 1970's.
Today the La Tomatina legend has grown to become an international event that is listed in Things To Do Before You Die type lists and has even featured on a credit card advertisement.
La Tomatina though is not a festival suited to the age of mass tourism, where budget airline loads of tourists can do Spain for the weekend and tick another festival from the been there, done that list.
This is not to say there shouldn't be large messy festivals. Visit India during Holi to see how joyous a messy festival can be.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Church tiles of Andalucia
This post has moved to Church tiles of Andalucia.
Labels: andalucia, cathedral, church, church tiles, religious art, spain
Sunday, September 24, 2006
A taste of home
This post has moved to A taste of home - British food on the Costa del Sol.
Labels: costa-del-sol, food, spain
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Gibraltar Number Plate
City of Gibraltar
Friday, September 15, 2006
Jesus Calling
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Costa Atlantica
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Pension Inma - Cadiz
This post has moved to Budget accommodation in Cadiz, Spain.
Labels: cadiz, cathedral, pension, spain
Post Box - Cadiz
European train station cafes
One of the many things that makes train travel in Europe such a civilised and viable option is the train station cafeteria. Jerez de la Frontera, for example, isn't a primary rail station but its cafe is nice enough to not mind having to wait half an hour until your train arrives.

Jerez Train Station Cafeteria

Jerez Train Station Cafeteria
Labels: cafe, jerez-de-lafrontera, spain, train-station
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Acorn fed pigs
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Placa de Catalunya - Barcelona
Tuesday, June 13, 2006



