Arcos de la Frontera, Spain Travel Blogs

Pueblos Blancos - The White Hills of Spain
May 23, 2007 (9 photos)

... stick so the olives fall on the tarp for collection.   At the end of our drive, we arrived at a small town called Arcos de la Fontera.  If you can envision old town Europe, then Arcos would fit the bill.    Arcos is a small town ...

Sherry, Horses and Flamenco
Nov 25, 2006 (19 photos)

... with a dull photograph of the city in the distance which looked as gloomy and as dark as the clouds hovering above it all. La Taverna Flamenca The highlight of the day by far was a visit to an old, traditional and extremely rustic taverna for an ...

Arcos de La Frontera
Jun 5, 2006

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Relaxation...after all
Apr 8, 2007 (8 photos)

Arcos De La Frontera     We took a 2 hour bus ride to Arco de la Frontera from Sevilla for a few days of R & R and Running with the Bulls!!!  The bus ride was gorgeous with rolling hills of green fields, rural areas, small ...

My Patron Saint vs. Ditka
Jun 30, 2006 (13 photos)

... our price range (without too many creatures joining us) and truly immersed ourselves in the beauty and scenic views of the towns. Arcos de la Frontera has a new town and an old quarter. We choose the old quarter on top of yet another steep hill, so ...

Gibraltar to Arcos de la Frontera
Jul 14, 2007 (10 photos)

... braved the heat once again.  Must be over 100 here. SHE SAID: After we found our way initially the drive to Arcos continued to be interesting.  In route there were police that had stopped everyone and forced all the vehicles onto the shoulder ...

Laundry in Arcos de la Frontera
May 4, 2009 (6 photos)

Rick Steves loves this place, and I dont know why.  Itt not worth the trouble getting to it for a quick view from the top of the village.  Although I did get my laudry done finally after 3 days of wearing the same thing.  So this made me stay for a bit and ...

Car crashes and White Towns
Sep 24, 2007 (18 photos)

... plastic off the car and stick it into the back seat. After which we check out of the hotel, and drive on toward Arcos, thanking all of the deities we can think of that we've gotten complete comprehensive insurance back at the car rental. Pretty soon we ...

Arcos de la Frontera
Apr 11, 2006 (5 photos)

Semana Santa

Arcos Navidad
Dec 16, 2007 (20 photos)

Christmas pageant

On the road to Seville
Nov 29, 2006

When he goes: Wednesday 29th November 2006. Who he goes with (from): Viviane (France). How he gets there: Updated data on their way... Where he stays:   Updated data on their way... Build-up our general knowledge: Updated ...

Land of tapas
Aug 3, 2005

We had a great Ryan Air flight to Jerez and spent the night in a cosy apartment/'riad' (guesthouse) run by a guy who turned out to be from Colorado! Small world indeed...He and his girlfriend are also renovating a riad in Morocco--a huge ex-pat business ...

Another deployment
Jun 3, 2006

Starting my next deployment, flew out of Jerez, Spain. The pictures below are not from this particular stop through Jerez but from one a couple months earlier. We didn't explore too much, again, something I hope to do when I get back there. We went to ...

Living on a cliff face was unique!
Jul 13, 2009 (5 photos)

...            Monday was a road trip to get to our next stop, Arcos de la Frontera, but we took the indirect route, swooping down to Gibraltar and looping back up the Atlantic coast through windy Teneriffe..& ...

Noreen--hanging with some Canucks in a small town
Feb 11, 2008

The first town on the western part of the pueblos blancos--Arcos de la Frontera. Met two Quebecers travelling around southern Spain for 8 days. Yup, they only had that much time! They had bought a lot of wine and olive oil along their journey, so ...

Arcos de la Frontera
Mar 21, 2004

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