"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
Where to Eat and Drink in Malaga. 2016-2017. The Spanish city of Málaga really has it all. Sweeping squares, a large jungle park, beaches, gorgeous architecture and a vibrant art scene to name just a few highlights. Oh, and the food ain’t bad either! In fact, in this article I’ll be going through my favourite […]
Read MorePlaza de la Merced. 2016-2017. The Spanish really know how to do a city square, perhaps more than any other nation I’ve visited. In this regard, Malaga sums up the Andalusian vibe nicely, with over a dozen gorgeous squares from which one can idle away an afternoon nibbling on tapas and guzzling red wine. My […]
Read MoreStreet Art in Malaga. 2016-2017. I’ve always been a lover of urban street art. No matter what city I find myself in, I try to get at least a few shots of the most colourful and arresting murals. After my trip to Berlin (a fantastic street art city!) in April 2013, I thought how cool […]
Read MoreThe Alcazaba: Malaga’s Unmissable Fortress. 2016-2017. In the spring of 2016 I relocated to the Spanish city of Málaga. Renting a small apartment in the centre, I settled into a gentle routine of writing, reading, watching films and jogging down to the beach each day before turning back through the warming streets. To keep things […]
Read MoreHandsome Ronda and its Wondrous El Tajo Gorge. Andalusia, Spain. February 2017. I’d been looking forward to my trip to the mountaintop town of Ronda for weeks. Time and time again, I’d read that this might just be “the most beautiful town in Andalusia”. That’s a bold clam, and one I relished putting to the […]
Read MoreMarbella, The Costa del Sol. December 2016. My day trip to the Spanish city of Marbella came about quite suddenly on the back of an unfortunate mishap. The day before, I was in bed in my apartment in Malaga tapping away on my Mac. I’d only been awake for half an hour and had just […]
Read MoreNerja, The Costa del Sol. September 2016. I was at home in Malaga one lazy weekend scanning my great Andalusia to-do list. While it was pleasing to see how much I’d managed to tick off, there was of course still much to do. On that particular day my eyes were drawn to the words Balcony […]
Read MoreFuengirola, The Costa del Sol. December 2016. After an initial flurry of Costa del Sol visits in the summer of 2016, I had admittedly forgotten about my strange travel project. Basically, I had resolved to check out the coastal region’s British-Spanish hybrid towns one by one. Chiefly to see if they really were as awful […]
Read MoreTorremolinos, The Costa del Sol. July 2016. It would be an understatement to say that Torremolinos doesn’t have a great reputation. Disparaged by many as the grottiest of The Costa del Sol towns, in Britain it has the unfortunate nickname Torrid-molinos. Nevertheless, I had already resolved to give these unloved coastal towns a try. Mainly […]
Read MoreBenalmadena, The Costa del Sol. June 2016. It was a scorching hot summer afternoon when I set off on what I can only describe as an excursion of curiosity. So many people had told me not to bother with The Costa del Sol. That the entire coastal strip was a tourist trap devoid of Spanish authenticity. A […]
Read MoreFrigiliana: Andalusia’s Prettiest Whitewashed Village. October 2016. A potential visit to the south of Spain conjures up daydreams of blue skies, golden sands and mouth-watering bowls of tapas. More often than not accompanied by a glass of blood-red tinto (wine). Or in my case a cheeky caña (little beer). You might also think of pristine, whitewashed […]
Read MoreExploring Granada in Spain. March 2017. It was yet another sunny, Spanish weekend. Once again, I was on a bus speeding out of Malaga for some exploring around Andalusia. Just the latest trip in my quest to see as much of southern Spain as I could before I departed for China. My decision to include […]
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