On a late summer’s day in August, a migration is taking place in the far north-eastern corner of Spain. With a new school year looming, the AP7 motorway is busy…
The first time we visited Tarifa for a whale watching cruise was in May, and I was disappointed to hear that we were early for the Orca season, which would…
There is such a dizzying array of choice of restaurants and bars in Madrid that it is often difficult for the visitor to know where to start. Madrileños love to…
We first caught sight of Ávila zooming past it on the way to Salamanca. Only one word can adequately describe it: breathtaking. Lit up in the black night sky, the City’s…
Madrid may not have a beach, but just a short drive north you can find La Pedriza in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range which provides a cool haven and…
I fell in love with Baqueira Beret before I had even set a single ski on one of it is Pyrenean pistes. I love to ski, and have done since…
Madrid is roasting hot in the summer, there’s no getting away from that. I visited the City for the first time in July 2013, arriving at the cavernous Barajas…
The English have a reputation for being obsessed about the weather. It is a reputation fairly earned, as well it might have been given the weather’s propensity for rapid change…
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain… (My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, 1956) It’s been my intention to write a blog about life…