Perhaps you´ve already noticed, maybe it´s news to you: but we moved from the warm and sunny province of Granada to the slightly less sunny province of Cantabria. Why? is the question we get asked so often. ´Because of the amazing waves´, is our answer. Out of respect for the locals (which, yay, now includes us as well, I will …
When I first saw a picture of Riaño in a National Geographic Travel Magazine, and I saw that it was located in Spain, I marked it with a little red heart on my Google Maps (Yes, I have many little red hearts there ;)). Visiting our friends in Léon with our 6-week-old baby turned out to be rather close to …
All about surfing in the beautiful setting of the Cabo de Gata Natural Park in Almeria and which spots to go to. Reminder: respect the locals
Granada, a magical city in Andalucia, in Southern Spain. Mostly known due to the Alhambra: the Moorish UNESCO-listed palace and its spectacular gardens. But Granada is so much more than ´just´ the Alhambra. It is a city with Arab-influenced Moorish palaces. There are tapas bars everywhere and views of the snowy Sierra Nevada. Its squares filled with life, students and …
Recommendations on what to do in Guadix, Granada, and its surroundings. Cave houses, bicycle routes and historical centres.
Instagram-worthy Salobreña with Google Maps coordinates The town where I have taken up residence since 2.5 years now, Salobreña, is a cute little white town on top of a rock, just back from the shoreline of the Mediterranean sea. From here, you can sea both the mountain of the Sierra Nevada (which are snow-capped between November and May) while basically …
The Carretera de la Cabra (the Goat´s Road, in English) is one of my favorite climbs to cycle at the Costa Tropical. And I´m not alone in that, the Vuelta a España actually came by this route as they were going up to Granada last year (2018). As it is the old road from the coast to Granada city, it …
A couple of weeks ago, one of the readers of this blog told me ´wow, everything is just going very smoothly for you over there in Spain right?´. And though, in general, I am getting used to my new life in Spain, it´s by far not been, and still not, a smooth process and the ups and downs are all …
One of the reasons we chose the Costa Tropical as our new living place after almost 9 years in Latin America was the proximity of both the Mediterranean sea and the Sierra Nevada mountains. I mean, where else in the world can you find blue seas, little rocky beaches and white villages in mountains with snow-capped tops?! And of course …
