Wander among an alien landscape at El Torcal de Antequera. For millenia Mother Nature has been carving out this spectacular location for you, and it’s located just 16km from Antequera, albeit at least half an hour in the car because…

Wander among an alien landscape at El Torcal de Antequera. For millenia Mother Nature has been carving out this spectacular location for you, and it’s located just 16km from Antequera, albeit at least half an hour in the car because…
New England in the fall. The Wye Valley in the Welsh autumn. Both offer spectacular colours as the trees turn golden and begin to shed their leaves. Every country has its places to go to watch this spectacular display of…
It’s not too difficult to get a bird’s eye view of Orihuela. In fact, if you drive up to the Seminario, you don’t even have to walk! But, for the more energetic, you can walk up there, and then continue much…
I felt like I had landed on another planet. It’s no joke. The Laguna Torrevieja feels like an alien world, one where the blue seas have been replaced by a mysterious red ocean with strange shapes and patterns forming in hues…
Just 50km to the Southeast of Pamplona is the small town of Lumbier. It’s nothing special, in fact I didn’t even go there. Nearby hides a special secret though, and that was the sole purpose of this visit. Foz de Lumbier is…
Spring is almost here, or so the almond blossom appearing on the trees would suggest. It’s been a fairly wet winter so there’s a chance that you could witness something spectacular, just as I did a couple of years ago.…
Yesterday I had to pick some friends up from the train station in Alicante. It was a nice day, so we thought we would stop off on the way to have a stroll around the El Palmeral park and find a…
It’s been rather cold on the Costa Blanca as of late. Not THAT cold though. No, we haven’t needed to grit the roads or plough a passage through the snow, so the mountains of salt we see by the side of…
Too many pintxos on Saturday night? Maybe one too many cañas too? Want to stretch your legs but a trip up into the mountains is beyond your effort level today? This could be the ideal place to clear your head on…
When Pablo Picasso painted his famous Guernica back in 1937, I wonder if he knew what its impact would be. It is a symbol of the tragedy of war and a monument to the universal suffering that conflict brings to…