Category: Architecture

• Six fab things to do in Seville . . . or is there a barber in the house?

  

  Discovering a city that oozes personality. Arriving in Seville on a sun-drenched early autumn day will set you up for your senses to be tickled and your spirit to be enriched. This Andalucian metropolis has personality to spare and the sevillanos are out and about in force on a saucy Saturday. Layers of history here…

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  November 29, 2017

  Architecture, Art, Cathedrals, City sights, City stays, Consume, Culture, Food, History, Retro places, Spain, Travel

  Spain Ola!

• Art Deco capital of New Zealand (and possibly the planet)

  

  Not often you get to thank a natural disaster and community tragedy for a splendid architectural creation. In February 1931 a bastard of an earthquake rocked Napier, a town on Hawke’s Bay on the east coast of the north island of New Zealand. The ‘quake measured 7.9 on the Richter scale and rocked the Hawke’s…

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  October 17, 2017

  Architecture, Art, City sights, Culture, Food, Heritage, New Zealand, Road trip, Uncategorized