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Insider guide to Valencia. Fall under her spell.

05/11/2019 by .
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Andy Mossack’s Insider guide to Valencia explores why so many visitors fall under her spell.

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Ham and Sherry in Andalucía. Discover tasty hiking through magnificent Ibérica land.

05/07/2019 by .
Rupert Parker discovers Ibérica ham and sherry in Andalucia while hiking around Picos de Aroche Natural Park. Iberico Hams in Jabugo

Rupert Parker discovers Ibérica ham and sherry in Andalucia while hiking around Picos de Aroche Natural Park.

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Insider’s guide to La Palma. What a beauty

20/03/2019 by .
Guide To La Palma

Andy Mossack reveals the best things to see in one of the Canary Islands’ smallest islands in his guide to La Palma

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Secret Costa Brava, Catalonia

01/12/2018 by .
Girona Riverside

I’ve long thought of the Costa Brava as a destination for those 60’s cheap holidays in the sun, mass tourism on a grand scale. And indeed it’s true that Spain encouraged a rash of charter flights and built large faceless hotels in places like the appropriately named Tossa del Mar.

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Fantastic Guide to Tarragona

19/11/2018 by .
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In this guide to Tarragona, Andy Mossack explores much more of the city than just its human towers’ history

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Taste Of Andalucia Tour

03/09/2018 by .
Dining in Antequera bull ring

Potato salad  – a Spanish regional speciality?  Really?
Ask anyone to rattle off a few Spanish delicacies and the results will be fairly predictable – gazpacho, patatas bravas, tortilla, paella, boquerones and a preponderance of bull’s bits will all rate a mention.

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Guide to walking La Palma, Canary Islands

01/02/2018 by .
Guide to walking La Palma Santa Cruz Street

Rupert Parker’s guide to walking La Palma explores the most north-westerly of the Canaries.

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Weekend in Valencia

14/08/2017 by .
Valencia Cathedral and Fountain

Striking modern architecture, coupled with elegant art nouveau buildings, and a wealth of Gothic and Renaissance monuments, make Valencia the perfect place to wander.

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Walking the Camino de Santiago

14/05/2017 by .
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In recent years the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, in the North West of Spain, has become increasingly popular. It’s known in English as “The Way of St James”, as the bones of the disciple are supposedly buried in the cathedral of Santiago, but to most people it’s just the Camino.

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Majestic Hiking in Gran Canaria

22/06/2016 by .
Hiking In Gran Canaria

Far more than just sun and sand, Gran Canaria boasts mountains, colonial villages and archaeological remains, Rupert Parker dons his boots to go hiking in Gran Canaria

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