When we booked a four night stay recently in Tarifa, La Guardia apartments seemed a pretty perfect choice. Self-catering, right in the centre of the old town, in the middle of all of the action, contemporary and stylish judging by the photographs, and although not the...
The last time we visited Tarifa, was back in 2014 and it was a flying visit. We were travelling back from Seville to Nerja and stopped off for an afternoon, vowing to return, because we loved the tiny amount of the town and the beach, that we saw. Fast forward to...
We recently made a very exciting trip to Jimena de la Frontera, one Andalucia's white washed villages, deep in the south west of the region. More on why we were visiting here. We had to do an overnight stay and so set about finding somewhere that matched our criteria...
Archidona first came onto our radars when we caught an episode of "A Place In The Sun" and this was the location. Not many places on this TV programme immediately appeal to us, as many are in tourist hot-spots, but Archidona, with its cobbled streets and white washed...
Our trip from Istria, all the way down to Andalucia, has been an absolute adventure, revisiting places we've not been to in a long while, and taking in new places we wouldn't necessarily see. Even though we were driving, we decided to cut out the route along the south...
On a drive, high up in the Andalucian hills, above the white washed town of Frigiliana and the coastal town of Torox, we spotted some very unusual shapes ahead of us. White domes, almost hobbit-like, overlooking the sea. From the roadside, they looked a bit forlorn,...
We've not visited Nerja for a while, but when we still lived in Didsbury, we did visit often. We were very lucky that we had a friend with a family apartment there, and so if there was availability, we could make a booking and do a quick getaway from Manchester. We...
The small white village of Frigiliana - one of the famous pueblo blancos - is in the Axarquia region of the Costa del Sol, and regularly features in lists of Spain’s most beautiful villages. This pueblo blanco is distinctively Moorish in appearance, with the old...
A chiringuito is usually a bar or a restaurant on a beach - and one of the most famous ones in Nerja, is called Ayo. Like most chiringuitos, outdoors, it is a simple construction with a partly roofed wooden terrace. On the menu, you will find tapas, fried and grilled...
It’s hard to imagine that there could really be anywhere to avoid on Mallorca. We’d discounted Magaluf, as unfortunately we’re no longer in our early twenties, and so, when booking places to stay, we were pretty confident that every place we chose, would be a winner....