Mike McDougall

About Mike McDougall

Mike McDougall has five years experience working as a travel writer and marketeer. He is currenlty working to provide additional content for Babylon-Idiomas, a Spanish language school with an excellent presence in Spain and Latin America. This work is licensed by a creative commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/uk/

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus as born in 1451 and died in May 1506. He was a famous explorer and trader whose most significant voyage was crossing the Atlantic Ocean and landing in the Americas on October 12, 1492 .Although his actual nationality is a...
Date Posted: August 23, 2006

More Spanish Festivals

Tamborrada, San SebastiánEvery year on the 19th and 20th of January, the Basque city of San Sebastian prepares for the noisiest festival in the whole of Spain .
Date Posted: August 23, 2006

Top Four City Museums In Spain

Spain , with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year.
Date Posted: August 21, 2006

San Fermin – Pamplona

Known locally as “Sanfermines”, this raucous festival takes place in the Basque town of Pamplona between July 6th-14th in honour of the city’s patron saint, San Fermin.
Date Posted: November 25, 2005

The Alhambra – Grenada

The Alhambra is touted by many as being the best preserved example of a Moorish palace in Europe. Located in the Andalusian city of Grenada the ancient fortress is undoubtedly the city’s most famous site.
Date Posted: November 25, 2005

Gaudi’s Barcelona

The native Catalan architect certainly left his mark on this great city and a visit to Barcelona wouldn’t be complete without taking in some of his greatest works.
Date Posted: November 25, 2005

Madrid – a Guide To The Key Sites And Monuments

Spain’s capital has enjoyed a serious boom as a city break destination on the last decade. The proliferation of cheap flights has made more and more European cities accessible to weekend travellers.
Date Posted: November 25, 2005

Food and Drink – What To Expect In Costa Rica

A traditionally mild, not over-spiced cuisine, the Costa Rican food has absorbed influences from the Caribbean, South America and Europe into its culinary cauldron.
Date Posted: November 02, 2005

Federico Garcia Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer and a school teacher mother. It was from Lorca’s mother that he took most influence in early life – she taught him to play music and...
Date Posted: October 30, 2005

Learn Spanish in Spain

Spanish is undoubtedly the growth language in the world at the moment; it is now spoken by an estimated 352 million people as a first language (with a further 417 million speaking it as a second language) making it the second or third most widely...
Date Posted: October 29, 2005
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