Tag: Spain
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WHERE THERE ARE NO CROWDS
There’s a big problem of travelling in the province with the lowest incidence of COVID in Spain. Everyone else has the same idea as us. Asturias is packed with holidaymakers. Almost all are Spanish with a sprinkling of French. No Yanks. No Poms. And probably just two Aussies. The hotels and restaurants are bursting with customers. The hiking trails are chock-a-block because outdoor sports are the safe thing to do these days during COVID. We wanted to take a hike in the Picos de Europa National Park. If you Google ‘hiking’…
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WINDOW TO ASTURIAS
Earlier in the year – the pre-COVID times – Padma and I started dreaming of buying a holiday home in Spain. All of the land agent websites seemed to direct us to the south of the country … to the classical hot and dry Spain with abundant sun. One day as we were looking at the map of Spain, Padma said ‘what about up here?’ No, I said, that’s Bilbao and Basque Country … way too expensive for us. She slid her finger western along the northern coastline of Spain ……
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BASQUE COUNTRY
A couple of days ago I had never heard of the Basque fishing town of Hondarribia. Padma and I needed a place to hang out for a few days near Biarritz, which is in French Basque country. But Biarritz is too posh and expensive for simple folks like us. So I brought up the map in booking.com and searched for places still available during this busy August holiday season. I got lots of availability in Spain’s San Sebastian but that’s kind of a party place on the beach. I scanned the…
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