Ayna is a small village about an hour’s drive south of Albacete. It really is Castile – La Mancha’s Switzerland if you believe the signposting you see everywhere. Its ever declining population of less than a thousand inhabitants is spread…
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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Chinchilla de Montearagon
Chinchilla (de Montearagon) is an incredible town built on a hill and watched over by a magnificent castle. It is located just outside the city of Albacete in Castille La Mancha and is well worth a couple of hours of…
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Alcalá del Júcar
Mrs Paella has been given the honour of writing a guest blog about her recent trip to Alcalá del Júcar with some friends. This was done as a guided day trip with David’s Coach Trips. Our first stop was Almansa…
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Albacete – the knives were out!
I had pretty low expectations of Albacete. Nobody I knew who had visited before spoke particularly highly of the place, and even the expression “Albacete – caga y vete” suggests it is little more than a toilet stop on the…
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Don Quixote’s Windmills
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha is surely the most famous literary work to come out of Spain. When Miguel de Cervantes was writing it, I doubt that he had any idea that he was composing a piece that…
