Holiday travel ideas to broaden the horizon. Caribbean pool, Gaudi mosaic, crocodile Firepit, colour, fantasy, can-do attitude, sky's the limit stroke rehab. This first video is a short synopsis of the major things we found and the ideas that sprung from them.
The first is a Caribbean style swimming pool, and the second is a massive firepit that began as a small idea, but we discussed the design over a few quiet drinks at the local bar! The rest of the page is material we might like to use when we have the usual stuff: time energy space and funds.
This lunch restaurant had a loosely slatted covering with curves in each slat - this caught any water from rain and pushed it down channels in the beams The slats let sufficient sun through like dappled light through an apple tree The frond-laden bar which was behind me when I took this shot was memorable for the first pina coladas and frozen margaritas after arriving from the airport, with warm air wafting in from the sea Three days in a game park A Shamwari safari requires dawn to dusk out in the Land Rover tracking down big game but you retire every night back to comfortable accommodation, a gourmet dinner and vast selection of South African wine at your disposal - which is the problem - going safari the next day after the night before of wining and dining is more than a challenge.
Reminded us of hanging around the fire in Europe during ski season with glasses of mulled wine. Mental note: need to build a firepit. So we did :. The 'firepit' idea had a few beers behind it before the construction started In the centre of Barcelona the famous Las Ramblas ends at Mirador de Colon, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and the Passieg de Colon which is one of the road arteries through the city closest to the port more like a racetrack. Nearest the water, they maintain a very wide pedestrian walkway I can see climbing roses and bougainvillea looping through something like that Of all the Latin design influences we like most, cracked tile is the most appealing.
We have exquisite historical artisan examples from Antonio Gaudi's Park Guell in Barcelona, right through modern day industrial-scale crazy tiling in the buildings at the Valencian City of the Arts and Sciences. Either way, its where the hammer hits, where the tile decides to give, and the creativity of the artist as to how to use the bits as to what the outcome is.
