Spain
Spain · 25 April 2018
On a windy fine day in April 2018, after leaving Torrejon el Rubio, the last inhabited village in a vast green undulating landscape that forms the South-Eastern approaches to Monfrague National Park, Extremadura, we set off to explore the park’s birdlife. The UNESCO recognised park, with 18,396 hectares in its core area around the confluence of the Tagus and Tielar rivers, was the first space to be protected as a biosphere in Extremadura, being declared a Natural Park in April 1979. It's...
Spain · 24 April 2018
Down near the Coto Donana, a major wetland bird reserve in southern Spain, not far from Seville, we stayed in the town of El Rocio as part of our trip with NatureTrek. As none of the streets were paved - all sandy - it looked like the set for a spaghetti western. It was also a site of pilgrimage for a local saint. Apparently people walked there in there in their thousans on foot across the Coto Donana. We stayed in the Hotel Turino and had a comfortable en suite room with a balcony that gave us...
Spain · 23 April 2018
Vinas las Torres is a rural, family run hotel in a beautiful unusual house 4.3 kms from the village of Madronera. It offers tranquility in beautiful countryside just 12 kms from the nearest main town of Trujillo, an interesting historic site in itself. It has lovely welcoming hosts who are very competent in English and produce interesting beautifully cooked local foods as starters, main courses and desserts, as well as limited bar. Breakfast is a wide range of cold meats, cheese, spreads and...