Valencia’s Albufera is well known for its wildlife, languid rides in flat-bottomed boats and as the birthplace of that most emblematic of Spanish dishes – the paella As you drive down the short stretch of dual carriageway that joins Valencia to the beaches at El Saler during late May or early June you soon become aware [...]

  I lived in Spain for fifteen years before moving to Thailand in 2015, thirteen of those in the barrio of Ruzafa, Valencia. This little story was written a few months before I left Spain permanently, although I didn’t know I would be doing so at the time I wrote it. Each morning at eight I [...]

As a child in the ‘50’s, long before the days of Sunday opening had turned every weekend into just another couple of shopping days with bigger crowds, I remember my ‘Sunday best’, clothes worn only on that high day and holidays, and a stroll with my parents and siblings (often begrudgingly!) at the times we [...]

A pair of ancient cathedrals in Plasencia and a museum of fantastical motors in Hervás; two contrary sides to Spain's Extremadura.

The Spanish love a good party and there’s always a fiesta happening somewhere in Spain - and some of them can be pretty weird.