
Living In: Alella
El Maresme, the Catalan super-commuter belt. Crowded trains hugging the seafront. Exclusive casas pareadas, yummy-mummy SUVs and all...

Postcards from the Ledge: Barcelona's Congost Valley
Congost. It sounds vaguely like some unpleasant genus of winged insect. In actual fact, it’s the Catalan word for canyon. There are some...

What is: Andorra Land Art
In the 1960s an art movement was born which rejected the locating of art in the traditional habitat of the gallery or museum. Artists...

Exploration of Catalonia's Nether Parts: Castellet i la Gornal
Castellet i la Gornal is not somewhere many people have heard of. But it’s the site of one of Catalonia’s handsomest devils of a castle...

Sexy Iberian Village of the Week: Montefrio
Packed in between a river lined with ruined windmills and olive groves on one side and the prehistoric burial chambers of the gloriously...

Shit Barcelona: A Guided Tour
From crap fashion to cheesy tourism, annoying stag nights and theft-related ethical dilemmas, here are just a few of the things that can...

Spain's Frontier Towns
Approximately 120 million packets of tobacco are imported into Gibraltar every year - suspiciously more than is needed for a population of o

Classic Sunday Excursions from Barcelona in Winter
Late autumn is a good time to visit La Garrotxa natural park. Covering a series of soft hills surrounded by volcanos, La Fageda D'en Jorda i

Five Montañas Close to Barcelona
Barcelona province is blessed with stunning mountain scenery. From the Serrated Mountain to the Eagle's Pass and Bertí's Crags, here's...

Death to Saloufest
Critic Peter S. Beagle, writing about Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, commented on the 'erotic derangement that turns us...