Moving To Andalusia

If, like me, you´re always up for a bargain, you´ll love the Rastro market in Nerja. You can buy pretty much anything here, from clothes, to books, to furniture to jewellery.
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June 15th, 2009 | Tags: Flea market (rastro) in Nerja | Category: On the road, markets | Comments (3)

Once again, allowing a dog and being petfriendly are two very different things. I do get it, pretty castle, don´t want to see it wrecked, but hey, you can just say No to dogs, right? Once you say Pets are allowed, you can´t get all hot and bothered when people actually do bring a pet.
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June 11th, 2009 | Category: On the road, Places to stay | Leave a comment

Apart from cocktail slugging we also did
a lot of shopping during our stay in El Born. It´s the perfect place to do it: the streets are so tiny the sun can´t even get in, so it´s not that hot. Yet. I remember those same small streets getting hot and awfully smelly in August. Anyway, this [...]

June 10th, 2009 | Tags: Barcelona El Born best shops | Category: On the road | Comments (6)

You can´t sit on a mountain contemplating goats all of the time, so I met up with my best friend in the El Born district of Barcelona for an old fashioned girly weekend of cocktails, shopping, tapas and possibly some more cocktails.
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June 8th, 2009 | Tags: El Born Barcelona, Park Hotel | Category: On the road, Places to stay | Comments (1)

Chateau Du Clos De La Ribaudiere is in a good location, for us anyway, right near the highway on the route from Spain to Paris in Poitou. And they served some of the best food I´ve had in a long time!
The village of Chasseneuil is nothing special, though we did have rather a nice lunch [...]

March 26th, 2009 | Tags: Chateau Du Clos De La Ribaudiere | Category: On the road, Places to stay, Uncategorized, Where (not) to eat | Leave a comment

During our dinner at the restaurant of Casa del Patron I politely asked for a bit of butter.
“BUTTER?!” the waitress shouted, as if I´d asked her for a little bit more porridge. The bar went quiet. “What do you want with butter?!”
“Well, actually”, I dithered, cursed by years of polite upbringing,  “I´d like to put [...]

March 25th, 2009 | Tags: Basque country, Free wifi, Hotel, Murgia, wifi in Spain | Category: On the road | Leave a comment

When travelling with a puppy your hotel options are limited, especially in Spain. Still, Hotel El Hidalgo is not an option I´d recommend. It´s situated right smack on the high way, which is convenient when you´re trying to get to France, but rather depressing as well. Ok, let´s be honest: this place is a dump.
“petfriendly”
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March 24th, 2009 | Tags: autovia de Andalucia, dump, El Hidalgo, petfriendly hotels, travelling with a puppy, Valdepeñas, wifi in Spain | Category: Free wifi, On the road, Pet friendly, Places to stay | Leave a comment

Travelling around in Spain a lot, you start noticing stuff. The way they write “lively” when they mean “right above a rock club”, the way “charming” usually means “dump”, that kind of thing. And then there are the blatant lies!”Wifi is free and available in the entire hotel” is one my favorites.
Yeah, right! Free it [...]

March 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Andalucia, Andalusia, internet connection, internet in Spain, wifi connection in hotel, wifi in Spain | Category: Free wifi, On the road, Places to stay | Leave a comment

The past few months we´ve basically been living in one hotel or another, either on business or on the run from the freezing cold of La Alpujarra. You gotta love hotels: they generally have central heating, hassle free internet and yay, they clean your room every day!
We were planning to buy a house around here, [...]

March 17th, 2009 | Category: On the road, Places to stay | Leave a comment