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Holidays in Girona

Girona is a handsome town, one of the finest and most interesting in all Catalonia.

Historic districts and viewing points from the ramparts, the cathedral, or the bridges over the River Onyar all provide rewarding experiences for the visitor.

The busy café terraces and shops of the old town and the Rambla de la Llibertat turn to relative silence as you emerge onto one of the bridges spanning the river. The façades of the tall apartment buildings lining the waterfront, hung with washing, shine in warm pastel shades.

It's also your stopping off point for the magnificent Costa Brava, chosen by National Geographic as one the Best Trips in the World 2012.

With its superlatively preserved medieval villages, gorgeous beaches, top-cass cuisine, Dalí museum, volcanic forest-lands. It's one of the classiest holidays to be had anywhere in Europe.

Sierra del Sueve

Two hikes and an ancient horse of the North

The far north of Spain holds a secret delight: a geological fancy, a small range of hills and green valleys within clear sight of the Cantabrian Sea, the kind of place that aches to be walked by ramblers.

It’s the Sierra del Sueve, a pocket-size gem of mountainous green in eastern Asturias, whose 30 square miles invite to rambling discovery.

It also hides an equine treasure which you are sure to see.

Gooseneck barnacles and fairground octopus

Even within Spain, where Asturian bean stew will satisfy the hungriest belly, Valencia is credited with creating paella and a Mediterranean diet is the staple of a dozen provinces, Galician cooking is generally esteemed as the best of all. And above all, this means seafood and shellfish.

Yet while many of the fish and mollusc dishes may be familiar to people from outside Spain (think of a plate piled with freshly steamed mussels, doused with lemon), certain menu items which sound and look curious can be easily passed over when in fact they are tasty local specialities.