An unabashed tourist and her family explore the world one holiday at a time.
Last week I wrote about our visit to Seville’s Real Alcazar. Here are some more pictures of this interesting palace and it’s beautiful gardens. For more posts in the Spain 2010 series, click here. Have you been to Seville’s Real Alcazar? What was your favourite spot?
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The Real Alcazar, or royal palace, in Seville was one of the highlights of our Spain 2010 trip. While the Cathedral was bustling with tourists, the Alcazar was strangely deserted when we visited, even though the two sights are only a stone’s throw away from each other. Perhaps the €7.50 per person entry fee is […]
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Although our stay in Pilanesberg earlier this year ended in disaster, we had some very unique experiences inside the game reserve itself. One of the most memorable was an encounter with a family of four kudus, a mother and three youngsters. We first spotted them walking alongside the road and we slowed down to keep […]
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Our satellite dish was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm last Saturday, which means we’ve been without Internet access for four days now. At first, it was highly annoying. I missed an online appointment with some friends, I couldn’t read my email or pay my bills using online banking and was unable to update my […]
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In September 2010 I wrote about the 210 rhinos South Africa had lost to poaching. The final number for the year was 333 dead rhinos (and that’s just in this country – the rest of Africa are also losing their rhinos at an alarming rate). All for the sake of little men and supermodels who […]
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Over the years it’s become tradition to climb the highest tower in a city (usually that of its resident cathedral or the local castle) to have a birds-eye view of the scenery. In Seville, we climbed to the top of La Giralda, before exploring the area around the cathedral on foot. This is what we […]
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The Seville Cathedral, locally known as Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, is the third largest church in the world. With my penchant for Catholic churches, it was inevitable that it would feature as one of the two main attractions when we visited the capital of Andalucía. An earthquake in 1356 badly damaged the […]
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