This wasn’t a ‘hike’ so much as a ramble around a gourmet’s paradise. It started in the lovely little town of Aracena, just over an hour’s drive from Seville up into the Aracena sierras. A 13th…
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After fish ‘n chips and pints of lager with the monkeys in Gibraltar, we continued our loop around Andalusia. Cadiz Sometimes our travel decisions are based more on a whim than solid research. In…
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As the road from Malaga to Gibraltar snakes around the coast, the green hills rolling down to the sea are pock-marked with high density resort and townhouse developments. Not actually near the sea, and often…
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From Madrid we headed south for a loop around Andalusia. Cordoba Cordoba rose to prominence as a key centre of the Islamic dynasty which controlled the Iberian peninsula in the 700s. By the 900s it…
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Good wine, pork, hot showers, flushing toilets, internet. After three months in North Africa in places where some or all of these were the stuff of fantasy, Madrid felt like free-falling into a duck feather…
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