Our YES friends Brian and Beth have been travelling the world staying almost for “free” using a “home share” approach, and are currently in an interesting part of Turkey. They stay for free in peoples home’s in exchange for taking care of their pets, and/or doing maintenance on the home. In the past few years, […]
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We really enjoyed a side trip for a few days exploring Seville, during our Costa del Sol snowbird escape to Spain. My main association was the vibrant and expressive Flamenco dance (video below) which emerged from this Andalusian region incorporating a blend of Gypsy, Moorish (Arabic), and Spanish cultural influences. We learned its deep cultural, architectural, and arts […]
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This is a detailed article about part of our 7-day trip to Morocco. During our time in Marrakesh we visited the market place, a Palace and a Mansion Riad. The Marrakesh market place (souk) is a super sized version of the more normal sized shopping markets in many of the Moroccan cities. The medina (old […]
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This delightful “blue” mountain town in Morocco decided to make their town stand out from all the other white towns, by encouraging their residents to use light shades of blue. Each owner adds their own embellishments to help make theirs stand out in the blue town. Chefchaouen is about 2 hours from Tangier, which is […]
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The country of Morocco is only a 1 hour ferry ride from Costa del Sol, in Spain where we are spending the winter as Canadian Snowbirds. Morocco conjures up images of Aladdin’s genie lamp, and the 1,000 stories of the Arabian Nights, plus the “Marrakesh Express” song (Crosby Stills & Nash). We really enjoy the […]
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We enjoyed exploring the charming white washed town of Mijas (pronounced Mee-haas) that was up the mountain, behind where we are staying in Fuengirola, Spain during our Snowbird escape from Canadian winter. It has a maze of winding streets that are reminiscent of Venice. The lowly donkey is a historical symbol of pride for the […]
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This “one of a kind” zoo has amazing sculpted jungle backdrops of authentic Asian / African settings that are part of the Bioparc zoo-immersion experience in the town of Fuengirola, Spain. It feels like an exciting Indiana Jones style jungle exploration experience with Indonesian temples and ruins throughout. Many of the exotic animals are visible […]
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We have been enjoying the 1,000 year old history of Spanish Castles and 2,000 year old Roman Ruins during our snowbird escape to Costa del Sol – the sunny south coast. See two previous history articles: Fuengirola Castle, Roman Ruins The Alcazaba of Malaga, Spain; Islamic Muslum style castle from 11th centry, which is more […]
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This old Castle (el Castillo Sohail) dates back to before 1000 CE is located in Fuengirola, which is the town we are snow-birding in for a few months. Its not as fancy as some of the other castles in Spain, because the ruins are older, but the protective walls are impressive to picture in an […]
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Our Canadian snowbird escape this year took us to Spain in Europe. We enjoyed the sunny Costa del Sol area in the Mediterranean a few years ago when we visited for a few weeks in the spring season, and realized that they have a mild winter season which is more like our spring or fall […]
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