We decided to go and visit Estepona as we had heard so many good things about it, particularly the old town, and we weren’t disappointed. We parked up in a …
Category: Destination reports
Top sights to visit in Granada
For us, a visit to Granada was ALL about seeing the Alhambra, but when we failed to plan our visit properly and couldn’t get a ticket to the palace for …
Highlights of the Alhambra in Granada
The Alhambra palace and gardens in Granada have been a bucket list item for us for a while now. We simple love ornate architecture, buildings with history and a story …
We went to Almeria – it was closed
We arrived in Almeria on Sunday, and expecting things to be closed, instead of rushing about we enjoyed a relaxing day by the beach, walking for hours along the promenade, …
Cartagena – it’s all just a facade
Cartagena is in the South East of Spain in the Murcia region and is very much a city with a port. Or maybe even a very important port that has …
A day trip to Murcia in Spain
Murcia is a city where we crammed all of our site seeing into just one day when this beautiful city deserved so much more. We were there in a period …
What is it REALLY like in Benidorm?
People said “Benidorm is like Marmite. You’ll either love it or you’ll hate it.” We have to be honest, we fully expected to hate it. Everything we had read about …
Fonts de L’Algar – Algar Waterfalls
We have to be honest, when we left for the day we weren’t actually heading for the waterfalls. We had planned to visit Guadalest up in the hills at the …
Walks from Benidorm – Albir Lighthouse
Think Benidorm is all stag parties and discos? We thought so too before we came but having spent 10 days here we’ve been able to see so much more of …
Failing to see the charm of Calpe
We wrote before about how we hadn’t expected much of Denia and then it exceeded our expectations in every way. We then headed just a short distance down the coast …