A portrait of Bilbao
For me, discovering Spain is like taking a ride on the roller coaster, with its rugged geography and its deep seated traditions, enjoying its landscapes and familiarizing oneself with its daily life and customs arouses both great pleasure and the deepest of emotions. As a little […]
A room with a view
When E.M. Forster wrote his masterpiece in 1908, he chose a seemingly frivolous excuse to set up the plot of his novel: his young heroine Lucy, and her older cousin Charlotte, two Edwardian ladies touring Italy, suffer a great disappointment when their hotel in Firenze lodges them […]
Literature and travel: Once upon a time… in Spain
In my home, there was a copy of Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra, an unsophisticated book with white covers and a colourful ilustration of a gentleman in Moorish attire. I was a precocious -an avid- reader, and I can still remember devouring that book, captivated by its […]
Eat, Drink, Live
The Seville April Fair began yesterday with the ”noche del pescaíto” (which could be translated for “night of the little fish”), a name that refers to the customary dinner of this night, made of deep fried fish… The tradition of relating a particular lunch or dinner with […]
Travelling with children
I have always thought that I am a natural born traveller. I am happy as a lark tasting different food, speaking different languages, and above all meeting and getting to know different people and cultures. I even like packing and unpacking and I positively love getting […]
