Canfranc Estación is an abandoned railway station high up in the Pyrenees above Huesca. It was the border post between France and Spain welcoming international travellers and freight since it opened in 1928. It is a spectacular building in a spectacular…
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…
Winter is almost here! At least it certainly feels that way at the moment. Now that I live on the Costa Blanca, snow is unlikely to feature too heavily in my life, but when I lived in Pamplona there was…
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…
Back in July we set off on our way back to the UK for the summer. Within a few hours we had driven through Spain, France, Spain again, France again, Spain yet again, France yet again and inevitably Spain and…
