We needed bread and found a commercial centre restaurant worthy of note a few minutes walk from the N340 road at busy Calahonda, a resort well-known to sun-seeking Brits. Calahonda on the Costa del Sol next to the busy N340 road looks to have enjoyed better times. Restaurants were empty and the local Thursday market lacked footfall. Also, the sky w...

Mijas clings to the hillside around five miles inland from Fuengirola. It is miles away from the brashness of the packed beaches and the sun, sea and sangria mecca of Fuengirola and is worth visiting, but be prepared for car parking issues. Much-hyped Mijas proved that hill walking and I don't mix. Why? Well, the white-washed hilltop village may be...

​ With a population of 70,000, Estepona is one of the few coastal towns that maintains a pueblo charm and character. The sun was rising in the blue sky but there was a fresh breeze. We'd wandered along the well-appointed and cared-for promenade at Estepona. And, thankfully, we've also strayed into the main shopping and café area. We both felt that ...

Spain's region of Andalucia is composed of eight provinces, stretching from the south-east to the south-west of the country, each one named for its capital city: Cadiz, Cordoba, Jaen, Huelva, Almeria, Malaga, Granada and Seville. This Spanish region is the third most popular in Spain after the Canary Islands and Catalonia. Andalucia's foreign touri...

The Balearic Islands tourist board has produced a sustainable tourism strategy for the four islands Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera that make up the Balearic archipelago. The Islands sustainable tourism tax raised an estimated €100 million in 2016 and 2017 and this will be spent on some 100 tourism initiatives aimed at creating a long-term...

​Fuerteventura is the second largest of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with Puerto del Rosario its capital was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in May 2009. Designed like a traditional Canarian village with low rise white villas, the Gran Hotel Atlantis Bahía Real offers 383 suites, seven swimming pools, a ...