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The perfect way to get to know a country's best music artists and bands? Watch their national music award show. In less than an hour, you'll discover the country’s best male and female artist, best band, best song, best album, a revelation of the year, and best live-act. Basically, the best what a country has to offer in terms of music. So, that’s what I did with Spain.

Many expectations, very disappointing results. Apparently, to win an Odeón Award you have to be good at ballads, love songs, and romantic duets. For many Spa...

As we tend to call Sevilla an ‘open-air museum’ one does not have to search a lot to find her impressive monuments. But one monument in particular still often is forgotten by visitors. But ask any local in the city and they will point you out a route north, where she stands: La Puerta de la Macarena, Seville’s royal gate.

Fortress Sevilla

As was normal through medieval times, Seville as an important city had always been walled since Roman times. It was Julius Caesar himself who ordered the construction of the first city walls...

Because I’m someone who loves shopping, I thought it was a good idea to write about my favorite Spanish shop. When I think about Spanish shops, I immediately think of clothing stores like Zara, Mango, Bershka, and Pull&Bear. But I think these are a little cliché to write about. So, in this blog, you can read about a shop here in Seville, “Cerámica Santa Ana” which is situated in the quarter Triana.

In this shop, you can find hand-made ceramic tiles, vases, tableware, flowerpots, and many more. The ceramics from Cerámica Santa Ana...

The city Seville is very beautiful, the weather is nice (almost every day), there is much diversity in architecture and Seville has a rich history. All these reasons were probably also some of the reasons why many movies and series were shot in this city. Are you curious about which movies and series? You can read it in this blog!

A chase by bulls in Seville?!

One of the movies is “Knight and Day” this is an American action-comedy. The movie is about June (Cameron Díaz) and Roy's (Tom Cruise) dangerous adventures around th...

It’s well known all over the world that the accent and so many words from the Andalusian dialect are very difficult to understand for a foreigner that is trying to learn the Spanish language. We Andalusians cut words at the end and in the middle, we pronounce them as we like, we talk faster, we change letters, and sometimes the faces of the people can tell you straight away that they are getting nothing from our conversations.
If the case is that you have a new partner from abroad and you want that person to meet your family at your vi...

When going on a city trip, visiting a museum is something that probably is on your to-do list. Usually, you go to a museum to see the exhibitions. But have you ever thought about the museum buildings themselves? They also can be very special. In this blog you can read about museums which are situated in very unique buildings. Do you want to know which museums we’re talking about? Continue reading, because we’ll tell you in this article!

Museo marítimo de Sevilla (Maritime museum of Seville)

This is a museum that has two floors....

To be honest I’ve only seen one Spanish movie in my whole life and it was like two years ago. However, I have already watched two Spanish series: Élite and La Casa de Papel. I highly recommend them. Anyway, I’m going to tell you more about that movie. The title of the movie is Verónica and it was released in 2017. Verónica is a movie that belongs to the horror genre. I like horror movies a lot and that's the reason why I decided to watch this one. I have also read some good reviews of the movie and people said it was the scariest movie...

Did you already know that the Spanish expedition to the East Indies organized by a Portuguese explorer started in our city, Seville? In this blog you can read about this expedition, the Portuguese explorer, but you can read mostly about the Victoria, the first ship that successfully made a journey around the world.

Oh happy Magellan

The Victoria was built at a shipyard in Ondarroa, a town located in the province of Biscay (northern Spain). At that time the basques were well-known shipbuilders. The Victoria was named after the...

“El olor de Sevilla”

In this blog, you can read about my favorite smell in Sevilla, “azahar” or like they call it here “asaar”. Azahar is the beautiful white flower that appears on the orange trees when they are in Bloom. Around the city Seville there are almost 15.000 orange trees, “naranjos” as they are called.

The beautiful city Seville is filled with azahar in March and April, this sweet smell and the beauty of this white flower tell us that the spring has begun. On a few stops during our bike tours, we can enjoy this smell...

Through entire Spain, you can find many different national parks, for example, Ordesa and Monte National park, in Aragón and Cabañeros National park, in Castilla la Mancha. Of course, there are more! In the region Andalusia, there are two national parks: The Sierra Nevada and Doñana. In this blog, you can read more about the beautiful Doñana National park which is located 42 minutes from Seville and in which we have done several tailor-made tours with Carlos.

Three provinces

National park Doñana, Parque Nacional de Doñana or a...