by Debbie Jenkins | evergreen, Murcia Region, towns
Águilas, Murcia Population: 28,000 This southwestern city near the Murcian coast has an arid and mountainous landscape, extensive beaches with crystalline cliffs and small, little frequented coves. There’s the Museum Arqueologico and Centro de Interpretacion del Mar,...
by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, Murcia Region
The Levante (South East corner of Spain) is famous for its astonishing variety of sweet and savoury pastries made daily (recien hecho) in the local bakeries (panadería or pastelería). Pastries are a staple of the Levante daily diet since the Moorish times when flour...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Cooking, evergreen, Murcia Region
You may have noticed that Spanish restaurants seem awfully quiet – when you go in. This is probably because you haven’t worked out how to eat like a Spaniard yet. Read on to find out how to go native and eat like a Spaniard and understand how...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
The game of caliche is particular to the Murcia / Levante region of Spain, based on a nationally-played game called herrón. If you, as we did, look up caliche in the English-Spanish dictionary (after seeing it in the itinerary for the local fiesta), you might be...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
My personal experiences of the luxury of a spa visit have been few and far between and to be honest, a little scary. I had a weekend break at Ragdale Hall, where the food was sparse, the treatments were regimental and the alcohol was non-existent (except for the...
