Advantages: A wonderfully characteristic hotel Disadvantages: None
Carmona is a town with a very long history and is situated about 30km east of Seville. It lies astride the NIV Seville-Cordoba highway so the town is very easy to find.
The Alcazar de la Reina Hotel is situated in the heart of the old town. It's not hard to find as it's more than adequately signposted, but it's still a bit of an ordeal driving to it. The old town was not designed with the automobile in mind (in fact I doubt whether the wheel was even invented when much of this place was built!) and you must negotiate a torturous and convoluted route through the incredibly narrow streets and lanes (all one way). The streets are so tight, it could be quite hair-raising - I don't have much hair so I was alright.
When we eventually cleared the claustrophobic streets, we found ourselves at one of the highest points of the town with a car ...
Advantages: Superb art, pacey story, inane characters Disadvantages: Just not long enough! Viva viva mes amigos!
Just get this!
Superb drawings, gr8 colours, fabulously inane plot, characters and dialogue combine to make the most exciting moderistic Tintin! I read this when it first arrived in UK 30 years ago when I was 6. I had already read all the other available Tintins by then.
I adore General Alcazar and have been plotting schemes for the demise of Mrs Alcazar for 3 decades now! VIVA la Carnival, viva la jolly follies!
Down with Tapioca, viva los dopicos! Viva Loch Lomond, viva les Arambayas! Set in steamy South America, can Tintin and Haddock displace Tapioca and place Alcazar on his 'rightful' throne?! What is Castafiore doing here tipping pans of pasta over people's heads? And Colonel Sponjz: how did he escape justice behind Herge's Tin Curtain? Mind you don't go swimming: if the anaconda doesn't get you, the caymen will finish ...
Advantages: A wonderfully characteristic hotel Disadvantages: None
When planning a recent trip touring Andalucia I did quite a bit of research on finding suitable hotels. Various things are important to us: location, comfort, amenities and last, but certainly not least, expense.
In the course of this research I came across a site called bancotel.com, a Spanish travel agency. They sell 'cheque-books' which can be exchanged for various travel-related deals. To cut a long story short, I managed to book a total of 10 nights at various hotels with all of them costing only ? 50 plus tax.
One of the hotels we booked was the ALCAZAR de la REINA in Carmona.
CARMONA is a town with a very long history and is situated about 30km east of Seville. It lies astride the NIV Seville-Cordoba highway so the town is very easy to find.
The hotel is situated in the heart of the old town. It's not hard to find as ...
