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So you have to go and pick up friends or loved ones at an airport in Spain, but you want to make a day of it. Stop off for lunch perhaps. Or see one of those tourist attractions you have always meant to visit, but never got around to seeing. Where to go en route to and from the airport?

Read the entire post » The airport run – Part 1. Malaga-Granada

I love some of the names of the rivers that run through Spain. Some are impossible to pronounce. Others can be funny or very apt when it comes to what they are named after. I enjoy visiting locations in Spain that have a river running through the city, town or village. And Riofrio, in Andalusia, is one of my favourites. 

Read the entire post » A river runs through it – Riofrio

I never cease to be amazed at how many people living or holidaying along the coastlines of Spain never hop on a bus to see more of the country. Especially the cities that are easily reachable in a day. In Spain it is wise to see more than the sea. So leave the car at home and get on one of the comfortable coaches that run daily linking so many coastal towns, with inland villages, and the distinctive cities beyond. Here is such a journey. I take the bus to gorgeous Granada. 

Read the entire post » Bus Stop – to Granada

The country of Spain varies so greatly. Not just with the landscape, or via the accent with which people speak. But also when it comes to the food on offer in the country. If variety is truly the spice of life, then the vast range of food on offer in Spain – including the spices used in cooking – provides anyone touring this great country with a veritable culinary overload. I think touring Spain while tasting the food on offer is a great way of sampling the very best Spain has to offer the holidaymaker. But it wasn’t always that way.

Read the entire post » A foodie in Spain

There is a point on the A92 motorway, where the provinces of Granada and Malaga meet, at which those who are scared of heights look elsewhere. They avert their eyesight from the marvellous view of the city of Loja that lays beneath them. Way beneath them. Loja, and neighbouring Riofrio, are locations overlooked by too many people. Loja is the city of water. Riofrio the hamlet of the trout. Each are worth visiting.

Read the entire post » Loja & Riofrio – the highs and lows