Africa’s only Spanish-speaking country is divided into two major regions – the island on which capital Malabo (which I wrote about on this blog very recently) is located, and larger Río...
12/04/2016
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Iberia Destinations
As many of you know, every year since 1985 the European Union has designated a pair of cities to be spotlighted as organisers of a yearlong programme of cultural...
11/04/2016
One of the main defining features of a country – at least as much as its geography, is its food and cuisine: after all, we are what we eat....
08/04/2016
Sure, if most of us think about Austria’s capital, we think tradition, the Opera House, waltzes, Habsburg palaces, and Sacher torte, with the Vienna Woods and the Alps off...
07/04/2016
The immense variety of Andalusian cuisine is matched only by its diversity as a territory: eight beautiful provinces where you will find coasts, marshes, mountains, plains and remote mountain...
06/04/2016
“Tropical the island breeze, all of nature wild and free…”
Whenever I hear Madonna’s 80s classic “La Isla Bonita”, I think of La Palma. She herself may not have had...
05/04/2016
What’s it like to visit the world’s largest city proper (as opposed to greater metropolitan area, which is Tokyo)? A city on the mouths of the Yangtze and Huangpo...
04/04/2016
In order to get to know Ecuador better, we’re going to take a stroll through one of the most important markets – not just of the country, but of all South America.
01/04/2016
As a Westerner, this country at the western end of North Africa remains one of the most memorable I have ever visited, due in no small part to its “Imperial Cities”...
31/03/2016
The great tenor Plácido Domingo isn't merely a Spanish national treasure but also a world cultural icon and household name. And if you happen to be in Madrid at the end of...
29/03/2016
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