Deciding on my Top 10 NATURAL Attractions in Spain proved even more complicated than creating the previous list of Top Historical Attractions in Spain. Whilst I’ve visited just about everywhere of historical note I still haven’t seen all the country’s natural beauty spots. You might be surprised to hear that Spain is Europe’s second most mountainous …
Spain Tourism
General travel information for visitors to Spain.
Historical Tourist Attractions in Spain
Having spent so many years travelling around Spain it’s very common for me to be asked where my favourite place is. This is always a question I find impossible to answer. The first place I lived in Spain was on the island of Mallorca which I still try to visit as often as possible. However, since …
Best Places to Stay in Spain
Everybody who visits Spain needs accommodation which makes the market for online accommodation one of the most competitive of all. Hotel chains and independent hotels offer rooms directly online but this is rarely the cheapest option. There are literally thousands of websites supposedly offering hotel deals so let’s try to sift through them and find …
What’s the Best Way to Learn Spanish?
The Spanish Language is a member of the Romance group in the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European language family, spoken chiefly in the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America by an estimated 330 million people. It is also known as Castilian, after the dialect from which modern Spanish developed. The Spanish language was carried by …
How to Avoid Scams And Safely Book Your Summer Holidays 2021
The majority of holidays in Spain are packages to the popular Costas of the mainland and to the Balearic and Canary Islands. Uncertainty in the tourism sector as a result of travel restrictions imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic means that summer 2020 has largely been written off by tour operators. As a result they’ve …
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Pedro Almodóvar – The Man From La Mancha
There is a delightful irony in the fact that Pedro Almodóvar originates from that region of central-southern Spain forever associated with Don Quixote – he is a Man of La Mancha. And just as Cervantes’ gallant knight became symbolic of the cultural flourishing of Spain at the cusp of the seventeenth century, so has Almodóvar …
Ryanair Luggage Allowance
My latest gripe with Ryanair resulted from a flight out of Liverpool on which I found myself seated separately from my wife. I wasn’t aware of having made a mistake when booking but learned later that it seems I now need to pay extra for us to sit together. So paying for allocated seating is …
Pamplona Travel Guide Ebook
Discover the City, the Region and the Fiestas The Spanish city of Pamplona became famous for many people thanks to the writings of Ernest Hemingway whose 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’ described his time at the the San Fermín fiestas. Today the capital of the Navarra region is synonymous with this annual bull-running festival. …
Top 10 Winter Holiday Destinations in Spain
Spain is primarily considered to be a summer holiday destination, with British holiday makers most prominently flocking to the Mediterranean in the July-August period. What many do not realise however, is that Spain is just as beautiful in the winter months. The climate remains warm, and it does not carry that same scorching heat from …