world reviewer
Dan Alba
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- 26th August 2009
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- 30 Oct 2009
Dan Alba reviewed Leadenhall Market in London, United Kingdom
This covered market deserves your attention not for its wares but because it's beautifully built, by the same designer responsible for Billingsgate and Smithfield Markets, though in this instance it's the paintwork in green, cream and maroon that adds a …"
Dan Alba commented on Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucester, United Kingdom
Also used for the inside of Hogwarts in the first and second Harry Potter films, and in the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas Special."
Dan Alba reviewed Loch Shiel in Scotland, United Kingdom
Loch Shiel is long and narrow. Almost 20kms long in fact. It's also 120 metres deep: its depth fed by the River Shiel. More importantly it's very beautiful and well wooded, a dip in the surrounding countryside that looks something like the Nordic fjor…"
- 29 Oct 2009
- 23 Oct 2009
Dan Alba commented on Château d'Angers in Angers, France
Château d'Angers is one of the more fort-y looking chateaux, it's medieval in age, as are its beautiful tapestries. Originally one long piece 100 yards long and 20 feet high, it's been broken up into segments for display amongst a collection of 15th and…"
Dan Alba commented on Tower of London in London, United Kingdom
Hundreds of people have met their end here, and lots of them in grizzly ways. Henry VI, who was 'stikk'd full of deadly holes in the hour before midnight', 21st May 1471 – probably by the Duke of Gloucester later Richard III, who is also accused of kil…"
- 22 Oct 2009
Dan Alba commented on Halloween Special: World's Most Haunted Cities
You're missing out London. The Tower is definitely haunted! And Windsor Castle is supposed to have ghosts as well. People say the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims stalk Whitechapel and there are loads of workhouse children who died in misery and st…"
- 14 Oct 2009
- 02 Oct 2009
- 29 Sep 2009
Dan Alba commented on Fes el-Bali Medina in Fes, Morocco
Get lost in the passageways that started forming here in the 9th Century. The people living in the medina are living a totally different way of life from anywhere else in traditional open-courtyard style houses cum shops where artisans create their ware…"
Dan Alba reviewed Madrasa Bou Inania in Fes, Morocco
The Bou Inania Madrasa is well known not for it's teachings, though it does have a teaching tradition dating back to the 14th Century, but for the grace of its Marinid architecture – the Marinids were known as builders and this is the last madrasa they b…"
- 27 Sep 2009
- 22 Sep 2009
- 08 Sep 2009
Dan Alba reviewed Petit Anse in Mahé, Seychelles
It's hard to rate one of these near perfect beaches over another and to do them any additional justice with words over pictures – but if this beach were a woman she'd be an angel. You've got your palm trees shading the edge of the sand on one side…"
- 07 Sep 2009
Dan Alba reviewed Victoria Clock Tower in Mahé, Seychelles
It only took nine days in 1903 to build this clock tower, a miniature of the one on London's Houses of Parliament. As well as being smaller, the other major difference is that it's been painted silver. It chimes the hour – and has been drawing at…"
Dan Alba reviewed Seychelles National Botanical Gardens in Mahé, Seychelles
These gardens are more than a hundred years old, and cover six hectares of verdant land in especially colourful and lush greenery and colour. Suggestively shaped endemic Coco de mers grow by the exotic orchid garden, and possibly the tortoises, kept for…"
Dan Alba reviewed Seychelles National Museum in Mahé, Seychelles
There are all sorts of interesting critters living on the Seychelles islands, but there are some even more unusual looking ones that are sadly now extinct – you can see a selection from both these groups at the Seychelles National Museum, or at lea…"
- 28 Aug 2009
Dan Alba reviewed Rainbow Tila dive in Maldives
This dive is a drift around a huge rock, on which has developed some beautifully coloured corals. It's not just a coral coated rock though, it's one with caves, a chimney tunnel, overhangs and a steep wall – all coated in a colourful, soft coral c…"
Dan Alba reviewed Old Shark Point dive in Maldives
This dive is on the Thilafushi Reef. The currents coming across it can be steep, but things are much calmer on the reef itself, which is why it attracts some may fish to feed in the area – big blue fin jacks, big tuna, big marlin and shoals of sma…"
- 27 Aug 2009
Dan Alba reviewed Rasdhoo Island in Maldives
Rasdhoo is one of the few inhabited islands amongst the Maldives list of almost two thousand. It's also the capital of the Alif Alif Atoll region, which means it's a centre for people living in the region, and the best place for local shopping and tradi…"
Dan Alba reviewed Mulee-aage Palace (Maldives Presidential Palace) in Malé, Maldives
The Mulee-aage Palace is ornately carved white building across the road from the Friday Mosque. It was built in 1906 by the Sultan (Shamsuddeen III) as a palace for his son, but the royal family were banished in 1936 so they didn't get to live there lon…"
Dan Alba reviewed Medhu Ziyaaraiy Tomb in Malé, Maldives
"Medhu Ziyaaraiy is the tomb of Abu-al Barakath Yusuf al Barbaree, who was the Moroccan scholar thought to have been the one to introduce Islam to the Maldives in the 12th Century. A few maintenance changes have been made to the shrine, but it's largely …"
Dan Alba reviewed Sultan Park in Malé, Maldives
Sultan Park used to be part of the south gardens of the Sultan's Palace, but it's now a small public garden surrounding what was the palace and is now the National Museum. There are some beautiful examples of the local exotic flora, and it's one of the …"
- 26 Aug 2009
- 05 Sep 2008
Dan Alba reviewed Turner Hall Farm in Lake District, United Kingdom
In the heart of the Duddon Valley with views out on to the fells and up to the Dow Crag and the Lakelands, this site is is a collection of pretty fields hugging the rocky base of a crag. The showers are a bit pricey, but fairly recently renovated…"
