We hire a car (booked before we left the UK) in Granada. The plan is to drive up into the Sierra Nevada and stay there a few days, and then drive to Ronda and back to Seville. We stop off at a village and have lunch sitting outside by the road. We get talking to … Read more
We went travelling in Andalusia a couple of months ago, in the Republica de Andalucìa, the Andalusian autonomous community that covers a large chunk of southern Spain – the green area in the map. Seville We landed in Seville. The city is doing well. It’s the capital of Andalusia and it’s a lovely city – … Read more
Chizhik-Pyzhik is a tiny statue of a bird. It sits on a pedestal built into the stonework of the riverside near the Pantelejmonov bridge that crosses the River Fontanki in Saint Petersburg. Locals like to throw small coins onto the platform near the bird’s legs in the belief that if the coin lands on the … Read more