In my last post I took you to Disney and World Showcase at EPCOT. There are eleven countries showcased at the theme park and some time ago I wondered why it was those particular eleven and speculated on an alternative selection.
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Tagged Culture, Disney World, EPCOT, Epcot and ethnicity, Florida, Life, US visitor statistics
While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 18th May 2008 I was on a golfing holiday with my brother and our sons we all agreed that being only sixty miles away was an excellent opportunity to visit the notorious city of Benidorm and see it for ourselves.
Some Benidorm pictures from various visits.
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Tagged Benidorm, Benidorm holiday, Benidorm hotel, Blue Flag Beaches, Levante, Poniente, Spain World Heritage Sites
While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 5th May 2011 we were in the Spanish town of Trujillo which I am happy to declare one of my favourites in all of Spain.
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Tagged Extremadura, Francesco Pizzaro, Hérnan Cortés, Lima, Mexico, Peru, South America, Spain, Spanish Empire, Trujillo
While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 25th April 2017 I was in Spain and took a walk to Guardamar del Segura.
The Casas de Babilonia are a string of fishermen’s houses built in the 1930’s perilously close to the beach and to the sea and over the years the advancing Mediterranean has nibbled away at the fragile infrastructure and undermined the inadequate foundations.
A massive Winter storm in early 2017 did a lot of damage…
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Casa Batlló is a unique and fabulous building that defies any sort of description and is a building that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. From the road outside the building looks stunning and the local name for the building is Casa dels ossos, literally the House of bones and the building has a visceral, skeletal organic quality. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles that begins in shades of golden orange and moves and merges harmoniously into greenish blues.
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments’ on Norm’s site, anytime between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time).
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Tagged Art Nouveau, Barcelona, Casa Batlló, Doors of Catalonia, Doors of Spain, Gaudi, La Sagrada Família, St George
While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 13th April 2014 I was in the Spanish town of Siguenza in Castilla-La Mancha.
We had travelled there specifically to see the Holy Week Parade, the Semana Santa which is one of the most important traditional events of the Spanish Catholic year; it is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter and features a procession of Pasos which are floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.
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Tagged Castilla-La Mancha, Culture, easter Holy Week, Easter Parade, Life, Religion, Semana Santa, Sigüenza
The Palau is an icon of modernist architecture in the city, if there were to be an arm wrestling competition with the Gaudi experience then this would hold its own for sure. It is an exercise in opulence, grand salons, tiled columns decorated to reflect nature and a concert hall that would surely distract any performer or spectator through a musical performance of any kind.
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments’ on Norm’s site, anytime between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time).
Posted in Europe, History, Literature, Postcards, Spain, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Antoni Gaudi, Architecture, Barcelona, Catalonia, Doors and Windows, Palau De La Musica Barcelona, Spain UNESCO
