I love market days.  Almost every town has it’s own market, with stalls crammed full of fresh, local produce.  Whatever fruits and vegetables are in season are in abundance, at incredibly low prices. There are vans loaded with smoked and cured fish, cheese and ham, and other stands selling all...

It seems like every nationality has their own holiday stereotype.   Germans get up at ungodly hours to put their towels on the best sunbed locations to reserve their spot; the Japanese snap photographs of anything and everything; the Americans talk loudly and can´t understand why the US...

Summer usually arrives overnight on the Spanish Costas.   One week the beaches will be dotted with local residents enjoying the warmer weather, and then suddenly, one weekend, you will find hundreds of tourists crammed together under a sea of umbrellas and sun shades. ...

Last night, Spain won the Euro Cup.  It was the national team's first football victory in over 44 years.

Since getting through to the semi finals,

Spain has gone football mad,  and although I am too tired after my late night celebrations to do a full write up today,  here are...

Food and drink play an integral part of the Spanish culture,  just as they do in most countries.  The Spanish love nothing more than meeting in large groups at restaurants and cafés to pick over a wide array of tapas dishes and talk (loudly).  

The home cooked meal is also still...

I adore Spain.  I have been here just over two years, and it feels more like home than any other place I have been.

I love the people, the food, the siestas, the fiestas, the scenery.  I even love the six day work week.

Yet I had never wanted to come to Spain.  My parents bought a holiday...