by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Dec 5, 2024 | Travel
Sevilla is Spain’s most walkable city, which is fortunate because most streets are too skinny for vehicle traffic. The everpresent scrape marks on buildings warn drivers to mind their margins. We are staying at the Hotel Amadeus Sevilla in Barrio Santa Cruz,...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 24, 2024 | Travel, Uncategorized
Cádiz is Western Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city. It was founded by the Phoenicians around 1100 BC, but a severe earthquake in 1755 destroyed many of the city’s Old Town structures, and it appears much newer. However, winding cobblestone...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 22, 2024 | Travel, Uncategorized
Our bus ride meanders through the Andalusian region known as “Pueblo Blanco,” which signifies nineteen whitewashed villages scattered between Ronda and Cadiz. This morning, we will visit the home and ranch of famous bullfighter Rafael Tejada. The...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 19, 2024 | Travel
We bid despedida, or farewell, to Granada and boarded the bus for a 110-mile drive to Ronda in the Sierra de las Nieves National Park. The city of 35,000 is split on one corner by a spectacular gorge separating the old-town quarter from modernization. Near Antequera...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Nov 16, 2024 | Travel
Granada’s 235,000 residents live in tightly packed houses strewn across the Alhambra, Albayzín, and Sacromonte hillsides. The Darro, Genil, Monachil, and Beiro Rivers converge in these foothills at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, explaining why this...
