Merida Travel Blogs

So it is time to talk about the ´Golden Box´. I have been using this term for many years now and think that it is time to share this wonderful concept with my people. The Golden Box is a place that I keep my most precious memories. The box is not very big and only the most precious memories belo…

Three day trip to Mérida, capital city of Lusitania province during the Roman Empire, and Cáceres. Both are classified by UNESCO. Unexpected and planned overnight! Quite a refreshing little train escapade...

A week Spring Break in Southern Spain, Portugal, and Gibralter

Here you can watch the course of my hitchhiking trip to Spain. Starting the 1st October I plan to arrive in Barcelona around New Years Eve. From there I want to work and travel around the country in order to learn the Spanish language and get to know the people and their culture. I would be happy to see you as my reader or to find a mail of yours in my inbox. Everybody is welcome!

What an amazing place the roman ruins here are absolutely spectacular being the largest roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. The roman bridge is among the longest ever built by them, the templo de diana is very cool to see with its many pillars but the highlights by far are the amphitheater a…

On our trip, we really wanted to see different aspects of Spain, from larger cities to smaller ones.  Trying to find an easy and inexpensive way to get from Sevilla to Lisbon, we found that a bus could get us there very cheaply, and we could stop and a smaller city along the way, called Mérid…