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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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. […]
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 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 […]