Ávila

This was the best hotel during this holiday

[Jan. 2023] Ávila, a town in Spain, is located right in the middle between Salamanca and Madrid. Our theme of this trip was “the production area of black pigs”, and Ávila was not in that…

Salamanca

About disappointing hotel and our night walk

[Dec. 2022] The hotel we stayed in Salamanca in Spain was a four-star hotel named Catalonia Plaza Mayor Salamanca. The location is excellent, right behind the Plaza Mayor, a beautiful square in the centre of…

Zafra

Alcázar is now a hotel

[Dec. 2022] Next in Zafra, a town in western Spain, we went to Alcázar. Alcázar means a castle or a fort, and our guidebook describes it as a “castle”, but it seems more appropriate to…

Zafra

Lovely hotel and town walk

[ Dec.2022 ] Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located…

Caceres

Abbiamo mangiato Tapas a Caceres

A Caceres, una cittadina dell’Estremadura, in Spagna, abbiamo soggiornato in un hotel chiamato Soho Boutique Casa Don Fernando, che si affaccia su Plaza Mayor, la piazza centrale. Abbiamo scelto questo hotel per la sua posizione….

Madrid

To Extremadura though Madrid

[Dec. 2022] We went to Spain again, and this time to spent the year-end and New Year holidays. The destination is Extremadura, which is close to the border with Portugal. We chose here, because we…

Barcelona

Prepared and went to Barcelona

[ Nov.2022 ] We went to Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, which is the second largest city in Spain, for a short holiday. I was surprised to find out that Dubrovnik, which we visited recently,…

Seville

Seville for the first time in 10 years

[Nov. 2021] This is the first time in 10 years that we have been to Seville, the capital of the Andalusian region of Spain. About an hour and a half by train from Osuna, a…

Osuna

Staying in the special room in the mansion

[Nov. 2021] In Osuna, in the Andalusia region of Spain, we stayed at a hotel called Palacio Marques de la Gomera. This is housed in a mansion that itself is also a tourist attraction. It’s…