The sun is beginning to set on my time in Cรกdiz. Three more days at the language school followed by a day off and then an early morning bus to Tarifa on Friday to meet up with my uncle and eventually, back in Estepona, my bicycle Reggie. All […]
The wonders of mobile blogging… I think I’ve more or less got the whole thing sorted. Here are a few GoPro shots from this morning, transferred wirelessly to my iPhone and beamed up to the Internet via 4G. ย Hopefully also a couple of videos (but it’s there where […]
You may remember – I’ve certainly mentioned it on here before, and probably elsewhere – that one of the principal reasons for choosing to study Spanish at the K2 language school here in Cรกdiz was not just its general location in the heart of the old part of […]
The plan is that two weeks today – Thursday 9th April – I will be standing somewhere near the southernmost point of the European mainland looking north and thinking “here we go again…” (or even, “bloody hell, here we go again…”). Between now and then, my time is […]
I promised this a couple of weeks ago so here it is; the post with all the bikes of Cรกdiz, or at least some of them. I wouldn’t want to give the impression that the city is up there at the top of the European premier league of […]
…and then perhaps this one:
There’s a a feeling you get when visiting El Puerto de Santa Maria that its glory days are in the distance past. But what glory days they were; Columbus sailed from here on one of his journeys to the Americas and the first map of the Americas was […]
I mentioned The Pillars of Hercules in the previous post and it gave me an idea for a dreary afternoon in Cรกdiz; see how many of them I could spot in coats of arms dotted around the city. The predominant coat of arms shown below is the one […]
