Maybe it seems a bit absurd to think that rolling green fields and luscious, well equipped golf courses exist in Andalusia. Maybe the image of the dusty horses making their march through sun baked paths during the pilgrimage to the Virgin of Rocío is etched in your mind, and you are surprised that Seville, one of the Spanish cities with the fewest rainy days a year, has one of the best equipped golf courses in Spain, indeed, in all of Europe: The Real (royal) Golf Club. Its standing is confirmed by the numerous international events that have taken place like the World Cup in 2004, in which Spanish golfers Sergio García and Miguel Ángel Jiménez participated. This is the second year in a row that the Spanish Open will take place here (the first was in 2008) from the 29th of April until the 2nd of May.

This sport has a long tradition in Spain, and the Spanish people quickly became passionate fans of this Scottish sport. The first golf club was founded in 1891 in Las Palmas, on the island Gran Granaria, and the first Spanish Open was celebrated in 1912. But it was in the rainy, verdant Basque country where the Real Spanish Golf Federation was founded in 1932.

The course in the Real Golf Club has 61 hectares of field and is the most prestigious in the Andalusian capital, although there are other famous golf clubs like Pineda Seville or the Club Zaudín.

Despite Mark Twain´s declaration: ” Golf is a good walk spoiled” we think golf is a fascinating sport, and certainly one of the most elegant. If you don’t know much about it, perhaps this is a good moment to find out more.

Get ready to visit Seville, the city of a thousand faces, let the magic of Andalusia enchant you and learn more about golf. For ideal lodging, rent comfortable apartments in Seville.

Humans are a funny bunch. We start out liking something and before you know it, it becomes an obsession. Sometimes this is unhealthy, but more often it’s just kinda funny. Here is our strange collection of favourite fanciers, and some of the things they admire.

Dog Collars
Going all the way back to Medieval times, this collection of British dog collars spans about five hundred years of history and even has a few diamond-encrusted offerings (wouldn’t you like to be Paris Hilton’s dog?). The collection is so big that it now has it’s own museum! Not just in someone’s basement either, but in the tower gate of Leeds Castle, England. Guess the Brits really like their pooches.

Banana Labels
We never could figure out why we needed those little stickers, but someone certainly loves them. Becky Martz has been collecting banana labels since the early nineties and now has over seven thousand of them. She is so into the fiddly little ‘collectors items’ that she has now branched out into asparagus and broccoli. Really.

Burnt Food
Not just a collection, but an actual museum. Deborah Conant turned her terrible lack of cooking skills into a collecting obsession and now has a complete museum devoted to food that is black and crispy. Only in America.

Vomit Bags
The kind you get on planes. Rune Tapper, from Sweden has been collecting these for fifteen years and has over twelve hundred of them. He even runs a website for interested fans to view and rate the designs of these SickSacks, collected from 133 countries and 470 airlines. Tapper isn’t telling if any of them are used.A strange collection indeed!

Asphalt
Yes, really, bits of road. Like the dog collars and burnt food, this collection got so big that it has been turned into a museum. Famous exhibits include a piece of Route 66 and Appian Way – an ancient Roman Road. For asphalt fanciers, the museum (located in Sacramento, California) even gives away recipes for making your own asphalt. You know, for those idle afternoons when you yearn to build a road in your living room.

And finally, the Weirdest Collection award goes to…..

Graham Barker who collects:

Navel Fluff
Belly-button lint. Call it what you will, it is still the fuzz that comes out of the dimple in your stomach. Barker has jars and jars of navel fluff, which he has been collection since 1984. All of the collected fluff is his, no donations are requested.

Rent Apartments in Sevilla and enjoy all the creature comforts of your own home, on holiday, including a good shower to prevent the dreaded navel-fluff build-up.

We all have things that turn us on, but when a turn-on becomes an obsession about an inanimate object, it qualifies as a fetish. Yes, there are weird and kinda scary fetishes but there are a LOT of harmless and funny fetishes in the world too. Here are just a few of the things that some folk go crazy for. You may not have heard of them before, but if you have – and your fetish is on the list – it might be nice to know you’re not alone!

Balloon Popping Fetish
This one is a distant cousin of the latex fetish, and either involves popping balloons (often by crushing them between the legs) or just getting off on watching them being inflated. Usually the inflating is done by mouth, but for some people a balloon-inflating machine is enough to get them all tingly! A further step to the balloon inflation fetish is riding the balloon (think slow-rolling rodeo ride and you get the picture).

The Foot Fetish
Everyone’s heard of this one, but in the same way that straight people often wonder about the practicalities of gay sex (“So.. what exactly do you do?”), a non-fetishist may be curious about how a foot can get involved in sex. A foot fetishist doesn’t necessarily need the foot to be involved in the sex act, although a ‘foot job’ here and there doesn’t go astray. Watching, touching and fantasising about feet is often enough to trigger arousal. In fact, a foot fetish model can take home US$100 or more per hour simply for letting a client ogle, stroke and fondle his or her feet.

Transformation Fetish
in simple terms: Getting off on hearing about people turn into other things (like becoming an object, or another kind of being or animal). This one overlaps with anthropomorphic, or ‘furry’ fetishes, which is NOT bestiality (a fetish for having sex with animals) – more like really getting turned seeing your lover in a outfit made of fur, complete with ears! The transformation fetish is a visual or verbal one… Often a simple camp-fire tale of a human changing into a werewolf is enough to raise the blood pressure. Twilight, anyone?

Bread (and other food) fetishes
Taking your date out to dinner is usually a good way to ease into a romantic evening… But how about taking your dinner to bed? Food fetishes are one of the widest and most varied fetishes around. There are the Feeders (who pair up with Eaters the way Dominants and Submissives team up), the Food Bangers (not our choice of words, just quoting the website devoted to people who like to have sex with food) and the Specific Fetishists. Fresh bread is a huge fetish area. The smell of fresh bread, the physical sensation of it on the skin, feeding it to a partner, or eating it alone: All of the senses can get involved in this one.

The list of fetishes in the world is long, and most of them are completely harmless – as long as a partner is cool with it and it doesn’t disrupt a person’s life, a fetish is just another dish on life’s sexual menu (that last sentence was just for the foodies!). Indulging in a fetish is usually a private thing, so why not rent apartments in Seville and enjoy your quirk to your heart’s content.