A corner of France

Ridera del Duero is a wine D.O. (denomination of origin) that is recent compared to Rioja, (perhaps 15 years old) and the wines thus classif...

It has to be said that late November is probably not the best time to be playing the tourist in Northern Spain. Although Laguardia rewards e...

For our visit to the Rioja region, we stayed in a hotel  Hospederia de los Parajes  in Laguardia, a little walled town perched high on an is...

We stopped off in Bilbao for a night; it made for a shorter drive and gave us an opportunity to visit the Guggenheim museum of modern art th...

It must be 30 years ago that we first tasted Rioja wine, on a windsurfing holiday on Lanzarote.  We made a note of the brands, Faustino IV a...

We saw this enormous male chicken on a walk during our holiday in the Auvergne last year.  I'm a bit bored, and just feel like having a ...

The plasterboard ceiling is the next thing to go up.   Firstly, a series of parallel rails is installed, that the plasterboard will be screw...