After a three year hiatus thanks to the global pandemic, Rojales Fiestas are back with a bang. Quite literally! The chupinazo rocket launched on Sunday 12 June 2022 signalled the return to normality we have all been waiting for. The…
Manises – Valencia’s Ceramics Capital
Manises is a small town on the northwestern edge of Valencia, just a stone’s throw from the airport. Don’t go throwing too many stones though, as you are bound to damage some ceramics or tilework because the streets are just…
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Cheste Graffiti Trail
Cheste is a town in the Valencian community quite famous for its motor racing circuit. Indeed, the finale of the Moto GP series takes place there making it internationally reknowned. If bikes are not your thing though, there’s still a…
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Art and about in Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca is a fascinating city. It has so much to offer no matter what your taste, and on our latest visit we found some great locations for fans of art, both contemporary and of the street variety. First…
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Miró in Mallorca
Mallorca wasn’t a place I expected to find something worthy of a Paella blog. Sunshine, sand and sangria are not what I write about, so I was pleasantly surprised on a recent work trip to the island to find an…
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Albacete and its knife museum
It’s been a few years since we were last in Albacete and the chance arose to make a return visit, this time during the opening hours of the knife museum! Staying on the southern side of the city centre, we…
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Belén – The Spanish Nativity
Wherever you go in Spain at this time of year you can’t fail to notice the municipal Belénes, the Spanish version of a nativity scene. They are much more than that though, and each year some towns are getting more…
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Crevillente Carpets
Over five years ago I wrote about the potential for tourism in Crevillente and yet here we still are, with the situation more or less the same. In December 2019 the local council began talking about a carpet museum so…
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Güéjar Sierra and the Canales Reservoir
Sometimes you discover a place entirely by accident. Güéjar Sierra is a great example of this. How we had never heard of the “Switzerland of Southern Spain” is a mystery! Back in March we had been in the Sierra Nevada…
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Granada and the Alhambra – Post Lockdown
With reports of the Alhambra being relatively crowd free, and tickets easy to get, we decided to hot-foot it down to Granada for a few days. Hot, sticky, but very much worth it. A bit different to our last visit…
