It’s late morning in Galicia and the surrounding plains are pancake flat (something of a rarity in these parts it must be said), but dominating them is the towering visage of Monte de San Vicente.
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Spanish Paradores: Hotels have never tasted so good.
01/11/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, Spain and tagged best paradores, historic spanish hotels, paradores, spanish luxury hotels on .
Golf on the Costa Brava
28/06/2013This entry was posted in Costa Brava, Europe and Middle East, Spain and tagged Golf in Spain, Golf on the Costa Brava on .
September 2008 was quite a special month for the Costa Brava. It was, no less, one hundred years old. Ferran Agullo wrote an article in the esteemed Catalan newspaper La Veu de Catalunya in September 1908, where he described the ‘rugged coastline’ around Girona as the Costa Brava which is Catalan and Spanish for you know what.
Read the full story hereFuertenventura. Small but deliciously formed.
08/06/2013This entry was posted in Canary Islands, Europe and Middle East, Spain and tagged Canary Islands, Fuertenventura, Guide to Fuertenventura on .
Fuerteventura is the second largest island after Tenerife, and with only 60 miles separating the Punta de la Entallada on its east coast from Cape Juby in Morocco it enjoys something like three thousand hours of sunshine a year.
Read the full story hereGran Canaria. The miniature continent
01/06/2013This entry was posted in Canary Islands, Europe and Middle East, Gran Canaria, Spain and tagged Canary Islands, Gran Canaria on .
All the Canary islands have a unique volcanic landscape. They were born from volcanic eruptions some 20 million years ago (although there have been a few more since) and the lava, now cooled to a blackish rock-like substance called lapilli, has left its footprint everywhere, and even more extraordinarily, has been used to fuel agriculture, vineyards, black beaches and some stunning architecture.
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