Cristian

In a nutshell: You’d love to travel around Andalucia rather than be based in one location, but not on a package holidays. Will you need a driver and vehicle for the whole of your Andalucian itinerary ? Not necessarily, but here and there it certainly makes a difference. Complement that with a local travel designer […]

How does one describe the woods ? In Spanish, several expressions come to mind: ’emboscarse’, ‘echarse a la Sierra’, which approximately translate in English as ‘take to the woods’. And this is pretty much what the moriscos did, after being chased out of Granada and Andalusia. Well, some of them converted. Some crossed over into

It was early December and yet dawn portended a glorious day ahead: not a cloud in sight. The mercury showed a mere 13 Celsius and joy seemed to hover on the air. I had left the village belatedly, having driven to Barranco de San Juan and back to check on the trekkers. The lucky ones were setting out into the wild, trailing the track lining Vereda de la Estrella.