San Sebastián (25 to 29 July 2023)

Julie spent a couple of nights in San Sebastián about 30 years ago.  It was early spring and she remembers three things: the rain, the beautiful beach empty in the rain and the pintxo bars…

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Aracena Sierras walk, Spain (1 to 8 February 2019)

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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Andalusia – Part 2 (19 January to 1 February 2019)

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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Gibraltar (17 to 19 January 2019)

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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Andalusia – Part 1 (11 to 17 January 2019)

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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