Thinking of coming to the playa in Spain this summer? Well, if you're also a fan of all-over tans, nude beaches mark 40 years in this country, which has sprouted...
27/05/2015
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Month: May 2015
In her seminal travel memoir In Morocco, the reknowned early-20th-century American writer Edith Wharton described travelling in this country as "like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all adorned...
25/05/2015
This blog surveyed the impressive diversity of Principality of Asturias, in Spain's green north, not long ago, but this time we'd like to focus especially on the green part -...
21/05/2015
The Dominican Republic's best-known beach resorts area, perched out on the country's eastern tip where the Caribbean and the Atlantic meet, has especially in the past couple of decades grown into the...
20/05/2015
Tucked along the top of France's northwest corner, la Normande has a few things in common with northern Spain's Galicia and Asturias, such as its cool, damp weather for much of the year;...
19/05/2015
Europe's festival season is warming up, when the hills are alive with the sound of music (and more, plus the valleys and cities, too) as some of the world's most...
18/05/2015
As summer holidays loom, more travellers than ever (especially young women, it seems) are taking a break from the usual "turn-and-burn" holidays or hedonistic city sojourns in favour of...
15/05/2015
If it's mid-May in Madrid, it must be - the Fiesta de San Isidro Labrador! Back in 1788, the great Francisco de Goya's painting Meadow of San Isidro (below) depicted lace-trimmed dresses, parasols,...
14/05/2015
A couple of weeks ago, this blog covered Spain's most prestigious restaurants. This time, we've saved a quartet of very special eateries run by the quartet of highly acclaimed...
13/05/2015
Brazil is, of course, lots more than samba, Carnaval, and Petrobras. Or even, when it comes to cuisine, the likes of moqueca (a kind of fish stew), bobó de...
12/05/2015
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