Posts with tag ”spain”
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From Toledo to Salamanca
Toledo sits like a medieval fever dream on a hill, coiled tight with winding alleys and ghosts of empires past. The kind of place where El Greco’s elongated saints stare you down with those haunted eyes, and steel blades once flashed beneath dusty cloaks.
Review: Nasty Bits
Anthony Bourdain used to be a chef at Les Halles in New York and rose to stardom after his book Kitchen Confidential in 2000. I picked up a copy of his book Nasty Bits several years ago in Singapore.
The legacy of Gaudí in Barcelona
If there is anyone who has placed their mark on Barcelona, it would be Antoni Gaudí. His surreal fever dreams still rise above it all. Melting stone, warped towers and twisted shapes that seem more hallucination than architecture.
Exploring Costa Brava
There’s a jagged beauty to the Costa Brava. This stretch of Catalonian coastline isn’t the soft, easy postcard of Spain. It’s defiant and salt-crusted, a coastline where the Pyrenees nosedive into the Mediterranean like they’ve had enough of the world.
Bricks of Segovia
Spain has a knack for building things that last. Cathedrals, empires, grudges. And in Segovia, it all comes together in stone, mortar and defiance of gravity.