Completing the circle around Iberia
Squeezed into a narrow cove, reminiscent of Cornwall’s seaside villages, Cudillero’s seafaring houses tumble into and onto each other down the rocky cliffsides. A maze of steep winding lanes and […]
Category Archives: Countries
Oviedo
From Leon, we drove north into Asturias along the impressively engineered AP66. The motorway passes through steep valleys across a series of enormous bridges and through hillsides in tunnels. At […]
Leon
The kingdom of Leon was created when the Asturian King, Alfonso the Great, divided his realm amongst his three sons. Leon was inherited by Garcia I in 910AD and so […]
Huelva & Isla Cristina
Huelva is last of the large Spanish port towns before the Portuguese border and the place where Christopher Columbus (or Cristobal Colon as he is known locally) set off from […]
El Rocio
Hot and dusty, the white village of El Rocio borders the marshy wetlands of the Parque Nacional de Donana. Low-slung terraces of white-washed houses with wooden balconies and hitching posts […]
Seville
What better place to begin exploring one of Spain’s most beautiful cities, than in the morning shade of its incredible parkland and pleasure ground – the Plaza de Espana in […]
Carmona
For a view of dead Romans, you can’t beat the subterranean tombs at Carmona. Declared by Julius Caesar to be “the best defended town in the whole of Roman Baetica” […]
Chipiona
Shhh. Whisper its name. Keep it quiet and just to yourself. Better still, use the Roman name for possibly the loveliest coastal town in Spain, named for the Consul Caepion. […]
Cadiz
Arriving by water is always a romantic way to view a coastal town or city and as a hot sun bore down on the afternoon, we enjoyed the cooling sea […]
Jerez
Jerez has one of the sunniest climates in Europe, summer heat tempered by ocean breezes. Its soil is white and chalky and called ‘albariza’. Why bother knowing this? Because Jerez […]
