During our 2-night stay, we made a couple of visits into the town of Soria itself. Our first visit, or should I say our thirst visit, was when the clock struck beer o’clock during our investigation of the Riu Duero.…

With a very decent restaurant in our parador, at least last night we had no trouble finding a restaurant in Soria. Having walked back up the long, winding, steep boardwalk from the river below, we certainly weren’t going to go…

Soria, lying about three hours drive south of Bilbao, was our stopover en route to our homebound ferry. It is described as being in north-central Spain in the region known as Castille y Léon. Francine had become fascinated by the…

On 28th April, 2016, we were making our way towards Jalón by car, having taken the ferry to Bilbao. We had stayed overnight at an intriguing old castle in Grisel, near Tarazona. On our second day, Francine’s cunning plan was…

My legs felt as if they needed stretching and, it being a fine morning, we began the day by returning to the hill above Senija to see if we could see get some better Swallowtail activity. Activity was exactly what…

Francine and I are not primarily birders; we do not go out twitching or listing. We are interested, however, and we do like to know what we are looking at or listening to when a bird happens by. Spain, being…

Francine has had the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias [the City of Arts and Sciences] in Valencia on her hit list for some time. We’ve formerly braved the Spanish trains and travelled in to the city centre but…

Prior to becoming somewhat familiar with Spain, we used to say that the Austrians would have a fest [festival] at the drop of hat. On our journey back from camping in Italy many years ago, we crossed the Dolomites into…

Last year, on our car trip over to Spain through Bilbao, on our return journey we chose to stop overnight at Miranda de Ebro. Our chosen hotel was a converted convent or monastery (too many bottles of wine ago) and…

You really cannot move in La Mancha without being confronted by Don Quixote and his faithful servant, Sancho Panza: every wall of every hotel is adorned with Quixotic images; entrance ways feature statues; fountains in town squares are covered in…