"We all love going on a summer holiday to an island in the sun, but over the years Ibiza has been given something of a bad reputation. Those who like their clubbing fast-paced, frenzied and frenetic will love Ibiza, a craggy Balearic Island that..."
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Isle Be There
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Nicholas Clarke
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Spain
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Ibiza
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A Dirty Weekend in Spain
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Joe Cawley
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Spain
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Canary Islands
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Las Palmas
"“Guiri!” the man shouted before turning a cannon and engulfing me in a cloud of white powder. I had been betrayed not by a pallid English complexion – all faces were equally blanched today – but by khaki shorts and t-shirt..."
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A Taste of Real Spain
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Solange Hando
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Spain
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Murcia and Alicante
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Murcia
"Spain has a glitzy Costa for every day of the week but the newly-discovered Costa Calida is a leisurely place for discerning visitors and Spanish families. South of Alicante in the province of Murcia, the ‘Warm Coast’ is keen to assert its..."
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Cesar's Palaces
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Solange Hando
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Spain
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Canary Islands
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Lanzarote
"Few people wake up with a lamb smuggled into their bed, especially on their 73rd birthday. But when Cesar Manrique opened his eyes on that April morning, his face was sheer joy. For this great nature lover and visionary artist, there couldn..."
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Cadiz at Carnival
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Christopher Som...
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Spain
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Andalucia
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Cadiz
"‘Well, Cadiz at Carnival,’ smiles the man at the next table in the café on Zorilla Street, ‘you know you have come to our city when we are all going mad? Don’t anticipate to sleep tonight. But please anticipate to enjoy so much fun!’..."
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Cities of the Plain
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Ben Mallalieu
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Spain
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Castilla-Leon
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Segovia
"Ávila is short on discos but long on saints. The only ecstasy is to be found in the mystical visions of St Teresa and St John of the Cross, the two premier league saints of the area. They used to levitate ecstatically together, and you keep..."
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Top Five Summer Beach Parties
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Angela Moore
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Spain
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Mallorca
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Palma
"Party in Palma at the super-hip Puro Urban Oasis..."
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Vultures in Spain
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Rebecca Ford
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Spain
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Valencia Region
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Catalonia
"There is something about vultures that fires the imagination. In Appalachian folklore human babies were said to hatch from their eggs; in parts of Africa their superb eyesight led to the belief that they could see into the future; and in India the..."
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A Sip of Southern Spain
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Barbara Erasmus
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Spain
"The windmills of Don Quixote turn slowly against the backdrop of a blue, cloud-free sky as we drive through a flat, thirsty landscape en route from Madrid to Seville. The only clue that we’re in Spain is the series of giant 8m metal bulls..."
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Out with the Old, In with the Nudes
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Mark Eveleigh
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Spain
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Navarra
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Pamplona
"“Pamplona is changed of course,” wrote Hemingway, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin, “but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink it got very much the same as it always was.” In the 1950s..."
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