Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Barcelona, Spain; October 2008 You can’t get more classically Spanish than bull fighting but as an animal lover it’s not particularly appealing to me. Stumbling across this chocolate sculpture of bull fighting at the Chocolate Museum in Barcelona was as close as I got to witnessing the real thing during my holiday in Spain, and [...]
Barcelona, Spain; October 2008 We spent five days in Barcelona, staying in an apartment about two blocks from La Sagrada Familia (The Sacred Family), the famous cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudi. It’s worth seeing for two reasons. Firstly, the architecture is startlingly original – it really is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The building [...]
* Lao-Ocean Girl has a review of Star Chef restaurant in Seoul, Korea. It looks mouth-wateringly delicious. * I love the sound of these vanilla-poached quinces from Spittoon Extra. Best of all that the fruit was free! Here in the northern hemisphere it’s definitely the season for cooked fruit desserts – we had baked apples [...]
* If you ever travel with children, be prepared for a few embarrassing moments dealing with the culture clash. Kayt at Travel Savvy Mom shares her own hilarious, cringe-making moments. * Autumn is here and in rural England, the apple harvest is underway. Anthony from the Smith Travel Blog helped make cider in Herefordshire. * [...]
Madrid, Spain; October 2008 This, my friends, is a 17th century painting by Alonso Cano of Saint Bernard receiving the milk of the Virgin Mary. It’s on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid. When people talk about being “catholic in their tastes”, somehow I don’t think this is quite what they have in mind.* [...]
Spain is packed with religious artworks – some of them more quirky than others, such as these Jesus statues from Barcelona and Sevilla. Spain is an intensely Catholic country and has been ever since the Moors were expelled in the Middle Ages and the fearsome Spanish Inquisition in the centuries that followed. So it’s not [...]
Hola! I’ve just returned from two weeks in Spain with many happy memories, hundreds of photos and a slightly expanded waistline. I’m trying to shed a few kilos before my wedding next April but rather than follow a diet on holiday, I thought I would practise “intuitive eating” instead. Unfortunately my intuition told me to [...]
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