This place

Caesars Palace, synonymous with what we think of as Vegas – iconic boxing showdowns, Celine, mega-resort-casinos on the Strip.

A stop on the new railroad out of LA at the turn of the 20th century, a gambling town that grew when thousands of single men moved down to build the nearby Hoover Dam in the 30s. And so did the Mob, who built and ran many of the new casinos and hotels in time for the Rat Pack era of the 50s.

Over the 60s and the 70s the Mafia moved out and the big corporations moved in, and the Strip became the insane celebration of the completely-over-the-top that we have today.

Vegas legends Siegfried and Roy.

The local ice hockey team, the Golden Knights, were only created at the beginning of this current 2017-18 season.

A couple of hours before this picture was taken, they reached the final of the sport’s most prestigious competition – the Stanley Cup.

It’s as if Ibiza decided to put together a football team one year and they somehow got to the Champions League final. Incredible and bizarre, just like this city.

We’ve seen Ancient Rome, Venice, Paris (I didn’t snap New York), and now here’s sunset over the Andalusian mega-resort