Spain Travel Guide
The world of travel insurance really is a minefield with a huge number of companies trying to get your business. Fortunately it’s not something that you need dwell on too long as there are plenty policies out there offering adequate cover at reasonable prices. Do be aware that the cheapest policy you find isn’t necessarily [...]
I’ve never been in the income group of people who stay in Spain’s luxury hotels but taking wealthy clients around the country over the years has allowed me to visit some of these establishments first hand. In no particular order I’m listing my top 10 then I’ll recommend a few websites which specialise in luxury [...]
The Conexion Spain Virtual Trade Show is designed to bring together over 40 vendors that you can access at once from the click of a button and from the comfort of your own home. Educating yourself on a foreign country, even if it is just for the purpose of tourism can be overwhelming, especially if [...]
I’m sure you’re familiar with UNESCO World Heritage Sites which are selected because of their ‘special cultural or physical significance’. Spain began to participate with UNESCO in 1982 and originally five sites were selected for inclusion: the Mezquita in Cordoba the Alhambra in Granada Burgos Cathedral Park Güell, Palau Güell and Casa Milà in Barcelona [...]
A few months ago I was sitting in the ‘Patio de los Naranjos’ outside the Mezquita in Cordoba when I overheard an American lady telling her friend that she wasn’t going to go inside the building because she was “all cathedraled out”. Now if you’ve been travelling around Spain at length I can appreciate that [...]
Before setting up this website business I’d worked for 13 years in international schools and a university in Spain. Something that I noticed over that period was that children got fatter! Maybe that observation can simply be explained by my move from Mallorca to Madrid as the kids in Mallorca enjoy much more of an [...]
In the past tourists used to take a combination of travellers cheques and cash to cover their foreign currency requirements. Today travellers cheques aren’t widely accepted and are largely shunned by tourists in favour of using bank cards. Most people simply withdraw cash from the ATM abroad using their standard debit card which isn’t necessarily [...]
One of Spain’s most passionate places to watch La Liga football is undoubtedly the 52,700 seater Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera stadium in Seville – the home of Real Betis Balompié. The stadium was known as Estadio Benito Villamarin until it was renamed after the then-owner of the club in 2000. Founded in 1907 by [...]
Trying to come up with a list of our top ten beaches in Spain has been quite task. After so many years travelling around the peninsula and some of the Balearic and Canary islands it’s no mean feat to come up with a definitive list of top beaches. Of course some make it into our [...]
Athletic Bilbao, historically, are the third most successful football club in Spain. As well as being one of only three clubs never relegated from the top division of La Liga – there are no prizes for knowing the other two – they are also third in the number of titles won over the years. Sadly [...]
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