Thanks to Miguel de Cervantes and his immortal creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the whitewashed brick molinos de viento of Spain’s central plateau are among this country’s better-known...
25/01/2016
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Iberia Destinations
Back in the 1960s and 70s, a famous Spanish tourism tag line proclaimed: “Spain is different”. And one of the things that does indeed make this country different in a...
20/01/2016
Germany's capital is of course one of Europe's coolest cities. But back during the Cold War (1945-1989), Berlin was, more than that, a hotbed of espionage, divided politically into the Communist east and...
19/01/2016
The increasingly world-popular dish consisting of raw seafood cured with lemon or lime is most commonly associated with Peru, where it originated. But residents of Panama's capital have embraced ceviche to...
18/01/2016
In recent years, the capital of Angola - the southern African country which has long left the devastation of its civil war behind and whose annual growth rates of...
14/01/2016
At least since the millennia-ago minotaur of Greek mythology, people have understood that the best place to get themselves nice and disoriented and lost is a labyrinth, and these elaborate...
13/01/2016
Along with its ecotourism, volcanoes, and historic cities such as Granada, Central America's largest country is a growing favourite among the world's surfers, and so a number of Nicaragua's coastal towns have...
12/01/2016
While Rio de Janeiro understandably attracts and enchants millions visitors from abroad, this ginormous country – nearly the size of all of Europe – overflows with other remarkable regions...
11/01/2016
Ah, the wines of Spain. This country has of course in recent years become a superpower of the vine, with internationally famous wine regions spread especially across its north. But the...
08/01/2016
Why ski France? The resorts aren’t always the prettiest or most atmospheric compared to small postcard towns in Austria or Switzerland. But what France does have is a huge...
07/01/2016
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