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Sometimes in travel you strike lucky – even without real knowledge of a place. I...

Hot and steamy Kerala is better known for its backwaters, beaches (see my post on...

Back in Almeria recently, I realised again how totally different it is from the rest...

23rd December 2018 • 0 Comments The making of Andaluz the cookbook

Not exactly a piece of cake (or tortilla?). Conceiving, researching, writing and producing an illustrated...

Having just completed the first Secret Andalucia tour, my mind is still full – of...

Look Bethlehem up on Google and you find questions such as “Is Bethlehem in Israel...

29th October 2018 • 0 Comments Hebron – the West Bank ghost town

Sometimes a town gets forgotten, and that seems to be the fate of Hebron, or...

7th October 2018 • 0 Comments The survival of Guadix cave-houses

This astonishing landscape of cave-houses lies just 40 minutes from one of Andalucia’s most sophisticated...

One of the strangest b&bs I have ever stayed at is in Bantry, West Cork,...

As we negotiate the snaking roads of the Ring of Kerry in western Ireland, it...