For my first post about Venice, I wanted to look away from what makes this city so famous - the canals. Anything that represents Venice, shows its big Lagoon, romantic views into the narrow canals, with a gondola where a couple in love sits enjoying the views and each others company (currently, usually with a … Continue reading Venice, The Floating City – turning our heads to the unavoidable canals
2022 came around and I was not going to be stopped again from getting myself back into my travel habits. January was a grey sad month, as usual, it is, but this time around some good news started to appear. A lot of travel impediments were being scraped off. Which meant this woman here was … Continue reading Venice, La Serenissima, more Serene than ever – the streets
There is a lot more to Córdoba than the vases, but for some reason, that detail was what got stuck in my head. I mean, not really a detail. You do see flower vases hanging on walls, an original way to decorate, to make any white painted wall look brighter and joyful. I loved it. … Continue reading Erasmus Memories: Córdoba, the city of the vases
I was enchanted with Seville. It was a southern fairytale to me. I was buzzing in the warmth of the night we arrived there, my eyes probably shining out of fascination. I simply loved the clash of cultures I had seen in Granada and I was seeing again in Seville. Except that Seville was grandeur. … Continue reading Erasmus Memories: Seville, the Madre of the South (2012)
In my previous post on my Granada trip, I spoke about how this place marked me in two different ways - Granada for me was my first real experience with Arab architecture and culture without being in an Arabic country and it was the first time I was in the audience to enjoy an authentic … Continue reading Erasmus Experiences: seeing a Flamenco performance in Granada (2012)
The Winged Bone 