These posts are about anything at all that we are inspired to write about on our journey.
Mar
13
It was the first touristy thing we’d done so far this trip, and after ambling the backstreets of Jerez, kicking back in the markets, and throwing back cervezas in bars with locals, it felt odd to be trundling along a path through the verdant grounds of La Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre (the Royal …
Mar
08
“Are you going to Seville?” That’s the most-asked question we’ve had since we announced that Jerez was one of our destinations for Grantourismo. The fact that people are asking that question is one of the reasons that we are here in Jerez – a town we’re quickly growing very fond of. When people think of …
Feb
27
A teenage Moroccan girl in her school uniform of white shirt, navy blue tunic, backpack, and ponytail artfully carries several trays of flat rounds of dough covered in checked tea towels. A little boy scoots by her, his backpack slung over his shoulder, a tray of unmade bread balanced high on one hand like a …
Feb
25
We’re about to leave Marrakech and head to Essaouira for a few days… which got me reminiscing about a previous trip we did (which you can read more about here), and thinking about how appealing it can be to just jump in a car and drive in Morocco… Five years ago we went on road …
Jan
05
There’s no denying the Grand Tour was partly a summer holiday, the grand tourists leaving England, and later America, to travel to ‘The Continent’, invariably crossing the Alps to spend some months in the sunshine in Italy – under a parasol of course. But it was about so much more than lazing among the wildflowers …
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