In the midst of Seville’s spellbounding beauty, leaving the city can take some convincing. A couple of weeks ago I went on a trip with a small group which introduced us to a number of cultural, archaeological, historical and gastronomic…
The soul of Jerez
Since the Feria del Caballo, Jerez’s annual horse fair, is filling the fairground with purebred equestrian and human specimens as I write this (till Saturday 11 May), now is the perfect moment to hark back to my visit a few months…
A weekend of goat-herding, donkey-walking and flamenco in the Axarquía
Just before lockdown, back in February when the first few cases of Covid-19 had been identified here in Seville but life was still normal, we took a weekend trip down to the Axarquía region of Malaga province. Little did we…
Cooking luxe in the Algarve
A family trip to Pine Cliffs Resort in the Algarve, Portugal, including a cooking class at Mimo.
Five Days in Fez
Al-Karaouine Mosque and (the world’s oldest) University, founded by a woman in the ninth century. Picnic on the roof terrace of our Air BnB apartment in the Medina (technically shared, but no one else ever used it). The view from…