Posts Tagged ‘ holidays ’

Honeymoon Special – Part 6: Madrid

  • July 12th, 2006
  • Posted in General

While I’m sure that there are lots of neat things to do there, Madrid was pretty much just a stopover between Granada and Pamplona. This was made worse by having lost our guidebook. But there was one thing that we did want to do, visit the Prado museum (it’s name in Spanish is Museo del [ READ MORE ]

Honeymoon Special – Part 5: Granada

  • July 11th, 2006
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By the time we got to Granada from Córdoba we were fairly bored of seeing the sights. We had our tickets for the Alhambra for the following afternoon but for our first day we went shoe shopping. From before we left Tomoko had been looking for shoes to wear on the trip. I kept telling [ READ MORE ]

Honeymoon Special – Part 4: Córdoba

Leaving Seville by bus, we made our way through Andalucía to Córdoba. The bus ride was really nice as we got to see lots of sunflower fields. Sadly, most of the sunflowers looked like they were dead or something. I’d say they’d been harvested, but I have no idea how they would harvest the seeds [ READ MORE ]

Honeymoon Special – Part 3: Seville

From London to Seville we again flew RyanAir. If all you want to do is get from A to B then airlines like RyanAir are great. I wish we had airlines like that in Canada, although the distances involved would probably mean that the flights wouldn’t be as cheap as they are in Europe. What [ READ MORE ]

Honeymoon Special – Part 2: London

Previously: Glasgow Because I have been to London a few times there wasn’t much in the city that I wanted to see. Instead the main thing I wanted to do was go to Stonehenge. Sadly, because of the unpredictability of British weather we ended up going to the Tate Modern instead. One nice thing about [ READ MORE ]

Honeymoon Special – Part 1: Glasgow

Having found a cheap one-way to Glasgow we took it and figured that things would work out in the end (things always work out in the end). The flight was OK (or at least not memorable, which amounts to the same thing) and before we knew it we were in Scotland. And it was 5am. [ READ MORE ]

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