According to esmadrid.com “the Mercado de San Miguel is the city’s gastronomic temple, the contemporary essence of all the corners of Spanish cuisine.” Opened in May 1916 as a food market, this centenary […]
The first time I arrived in Toledo, the bus dropped us at the road below the city and we began a long magical trudge upwards through the winding medieval streets […]
October 15, 2014. It never stopped raining that day so we headed straight for our destination that night, the Castillo de Curiel, a renovated medieval castle that had been converted […]
October 15, 2014, morning. CLUNIA, A ROMAN RUIN We started our soggy day by heading to Clunia, a Roman ruin that had existed as a town for several hundred years […]
October 14, 2014. On our drive through the province of La Rioja in Spain we spotted this unusual rock formation in the village of Anguiano. We were on our way from […]
I love taking backroads – somehow I find them more interesting than the ‘big’ sights of an area. On the way to Mansilla de la Sierra we were frequently stopped […]
The Monasterio de Santa María la Real is an extremely photogenic monastery in the town of Nájera, Spain. Built in the 11 century, its slightly bland exterior belies the many […]
Imagine discovering an early Christian settlement with hundreds of empty tombs carved into the rocks! The necropolis was called Cuyocabras in our book (Backroads of Spain) but we got quite […]
In this day of the internet and bucket lists is there any place left in the world that can be described as ‘Off the Beaten Path’? Certainly back in the […]
October 14, 2014. Today we went back to the time of dinosaurs then fast forwarded to the days of early Christians, then back to Roman times, and finished by spending […]
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