Corsica is known as the ‘Island of Beauty’ and I’d add an adjective in there – the ‘Island of terrifying Beauty’ due to the crazy roads carved high but not deep in the jagged mountain tops, which are the only means to access the beauty of the island (the seaside and mountain villages, beaches and hiking trails). There is a little train that runs between some of the major towns […]
Perpignan is a French town that used to be Spanish! And you can definitely feel the Catalan /Spanish influence in the food, the language, the architecture and the historical monuments around town. Perpignan wasn’t just Spanish however, It started out as the capital of the Kings of Mallorca – and the palace they built (Le Palais des Rois de Majorque) is still standing and in good nick today. The region […]
We had a very eclectic trip around Spain in May that started in the Pyrenees on the west coast of France as we drove into beautiful Basque country on the west coast of the Atlantic ocean. We then took in some splendid towns along the Asturias, before parking our car in Sarria and traipsing through medieval villages in the south west on the Camino de Santiago for a week. Then […]