Santander operates in the shadow of its better-known Basque neighbours, and frankly, that’s worked rather well for it. Whilst San Sebastián deals with international food pilgrims and Bilbao manages Guggenheim crowds, this elegant Cantabrian capital gets on with being a proper functioning city that happens to sit on one of …
The Cave of Altamira in Cantabria contain some of the most well-preserved Paleolithic cave paintings in Europe. Located just outside the town of Santillana del Mar, these caves were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. The caves were formed naturally by erosion from the Altamira River and were …
The heyday of cross Channel ferry travel was in 1997 when over 21 million passengers passed through the Port of Dover on sailings to that mystical land vaguely referred to as “the Continent”. Its decline as a means of transport began with the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 …