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Back to Sevilla

I enjoyed Córdoba and the Mezquita was memorable but 2 days there is sufficient. My original plan was to go from there to Granada to see the Alhambra and I admit I was miffed when my travelling companion who appears to be at her elderly mother’s beck and call changed her (and our) plans as [...]

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Córdoba.

Yesterday we travelled to Córdoba on the fast train know as the Renfe. My friend advised me to buy a “seniores railcardos” for 6 euros which resulted in a fare reduction to 40 euros for the return ticket too. We sat in standard with comfy seats with plenty of legroom and there was a [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tales of the Alhambra

I suspect many people’s grasp of Spanish history starts and ends with El Cid, with some fleeting nod to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who united Spain in 1492 and sent Christopher Columbus on his way to the Americas. Those with parents born in the 20th century may have experienced a [...]

October 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting around Seville

Getting around Seville is no easy matter. However well you prep and map plan, once in the winding streets, often very narrow and lacking signage, you soon are lost. It’s just as well the Sevillans seem a friendly sort as they must be asked many times a day “What is the way to?” [...]

September 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Seville explored

Given the extreme difficulty I had in locating my room, I decided to take all necessary precautions when I left it at 8.00am yesterday. I packed enough victuals into my backpack to last a day and, singing Keep Right On  To The End Of The Road by Sir Harry Lauder, set off confidently from my room. [...]

September 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Seville

Seville: the capital of Andalusia, the city of oranges, Carmen and the ‘Barber of’ opera,Velazquez, and a football team that has won the Europa Cup three years running. It has the  most beautiful Gothic cathedral in the world , the Alcazar Palace built by the Moors, and fine [...]

September 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s sauce for the goose …

As I understand it from media reports overnight, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn – who was once in favour of them on principle, has now rejected the proposal made earlier this week by shadow fire minister Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, that ‘women only’ railways carriages should [...]

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is the future electric?

As an old geezer, I like to swing back and forth between being ‘up with the latest technological advances’ and the direct opposite. It so happens that I was looking through a recent copy of Stuff magazine the other day – it’s the monthly one whose obvious competitor is called T3 – just to [...]

August 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

The media merry-go-round – is it reporting or creating?

My subject today springs from the recent media story about the thirty-something male jogger who was allegedly caught on CCTV on Putney Bridge pushing a female pedestrian into the road, whereupon she appeared to have been saved from serious injury, if not death, by the instinctive action of a [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summing up

Despite poor weather we all enjoyed the du Maurier piligrimage. Our perception that Cornwall was doing well was confirmed by a friend of mine, a local travel guide. He said that on wet Wednesday 12,000 people visited the Eden Project. His view was that a weak pound made travel to mainland Europe [...]

August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

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