For hostel/hotel bookings during Fallas, we’ve found the best rates at Hostelbookers and Booking.com Luckily for us, the world’s most annoying alarm clock only goes off once a year. But it’s a bastard. At 7:30am on the last Sunday of February, Valencians take to the streets for the despertà — the waking up of the [...]

Looking to pick up some junk fished out of garbage containers? Then head on down to the Mestalla this Sunday and marvel at the wonders of the Flea Market!! The Sunday morning flea market in Plaza Lluis Casanovas, adjacent to the Mestalla, is probably the best known & biggest in the city. We went a [...]

Hotels in Granada – Hostels in Granada – Flights to Granada The second half of our Granada day trip took us east from Almuñécar along the Costa Tropical and then north into the Alpujarras. A gorgeous mountain district of Granada, las Alpujarras contain a number of picturesque villages spread across the habitable spots of the [...]

Parany is a curious word I’ve been seeing a lot of in the Valencian press lately, usually appearing alongside words like “protest”, “anger”, and “controversy”. And “killing”. Naturally, I was curious. Parany is a form of hunting song birds, described here by thepetitionsite.org: accioecologista-agro.org The Parany trapping technique involves the planting and cultivation of high [...]

Hotels in Granada – Hostels in Granada – Flights to Granada Legend has it that when the Moors were finally conquered and kicked out of Granada, Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Al-Andalus, paused at the southern mountain pass for a last mournful look at his beloved city of birth, and sighed. His mother smacked [...]