Morning Tea

Travels: Portugal

Travels: Morocco

Marrakech

Traditional Berber House

Meknes

Fes

The Tannery

The Medina

The city of Fes

Travels: Airport

If you've ever had a decent stopover-stint in Hong Kong airport, you've probably seen a sight similar to this. I set up camp in front of a large window that overlooked the place where the planes took-off (made all the more inviting by the reclining chairs), and spent a while mindlessly gazing at the view before I tuned back in and realised that it would make for quite a nice photo.

Travels: Toledo

Another gorgeous little Spanish town, famous for its fine metal work - apparently a pair of scissors from Toledo will never need sharpening. They also produced the swords for Lord of the Rings.

Travellers

Travels: Costa de Sol - Malaga

Well, the "Coast of the Sun" wasn't exactly sunny or busy during my brief stay, but it certainly was an intriguing sight. With beaches nothing like those of Australia (most notably very calm and flat), Miami-esque palm trees lining the main parade, a definite lack of people and bustle, and an array of touristy and tacky businesses - including one slightly creepy sideshow park - it was certainly an interesting mash-up and very different experience of Spain.

The streets of Malaga at night - post-Christmas and pre-Epiphany.

Travels: Moped Obsession

I really love stumbling across mopeds. I don't know what it is but I love getting a good 'moped photo'.

Here are a few, all captured in Spain.

Travels: Seville

Seville is a beautiful city.

I spent a lot of time weaving through the streets and alleyways of the city, and when I entered this tunnel I heard beauty before I saw it. The music he was playing was gorgeous, I could've stayed to listen for a very long time. Then when I saw the scene itself I was even more taken aback - the light was gorgeous!

A park in Seville

Siesta time.

I really love this photo, it makes me giggle.

To me, siesta time was simply an annoyance; a large portion in the middle of the day set aside for everything to close and everyone to go home (I'm travelling, I want to see things, I want to do things!) Cities became desert towns with nothing to do, until the clock sounded and people emerged from all kinds of places. Sometimes I wondered just what the Spanish did with their day, they always seemed to be having a siesta of sorts.

Anyway, while wandering and waiting for the local markets in Seville to re-open after siesta so that we could continue the browsing the we had started beforehand, we came across this monument, and its siesta-taking visitors. When someone says 'siesta', this is what I picture. :)

Travels: Doors of Mijas

Walking through quiet little Mijas, I began to notice the residents' front doors.

With every building looking almost identical in their white coats I wondered whether, perhaps, Mijas' front doors were the residents' way of 'personalising' their homes. So I began, snapping every little interesting front door that I came across (and most of them were certainly interesting), and trailing ever farther behind the group I began to pre-empt this 'Doors of Mijas' compilation in my mind.

Ta-dah!

Travels: Mijas

Mijas (mee-has) is small and quiet town in the mountains of southern Spain. With every building in its borders completely white, mountainside behind and a view of the coast in front, it is a very picturesque little village.