Almería has one of the most distinctive settings in southern Spain. The city stands between the Mediterranean Sea and an exceptionally dry landscape, with the Alcazaba de Almería rising above a dense urban centre, an active commercial port and a long waterfront. Its...
Wind was one of the most persistent features of our motorhome journey through Spain. It appeared on exposed coastal roads, open plains and high sections of motorway, sometimes continuing long after the vehicle had been parked. Spain is often associated with sunshine...
Travelling through Spain is not only about historic towns, castles and coastlines. One of the unexpected pleasures of a long motorhome journey is discovering the country’s supermarkets. They are often larger than those found elsewhere in Europe, well organised...
Most visitors arrive in Águilas expecting beaches, seafood and one of Spain’s most famous carnivals. Few realise that this quiet Mediterranean town was once one of the most important mining export ports in southern Europe and that its skyline was shaped as much...
A few miles north of San Juan de los Terreros, the coastal road passes through an apparently ordinary corner of eastern Andalusia. There are fields, low hills, greenhouses, scattered houses and a broad Mediterranean shoreline. Nothing in the landscape immediately...
