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/

A Beginner’s Guide To Football In Spain

Football in Spain, much as it is in England, is undoubtedly the national game with a passion for the sport that can only be matched in a handful of countries around the world.
Date Posted: September 24, 2005

4 Top 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: September 24, 2005

A Guide To Spain's Quirkier Festivals

Spaniards seem rarely to need much of a reason for a fiesta or festival of some sort and you can pretty much guarantee that wherever you are in Spain there will be some merrymaking going on somewhere in honour of a patron saint – I’ve...
Date Posted: September 24, 2005

Spain’s Other Languages

Despite Castilian (Or Español) being the main language of Spain there are also a number of other languages spoken throughout Spain – many are now recognised officially by the government and regulated by governing bodies to ensure that they...
Date Posted: September 24, 2005

Blood And Sunshine - Bullfight In Malaga

On a blisteringly hot day in Malaga in the summer of 2001 whilst away learning Spanish in the Andalusian city, I resolved to see my first bullfight. With my father being a long time Spanish teacher I had often heard about his trips to the bullfight...
Date Posted: September 24, 2005

Saving the Iberian Lynx

Of the 32 remaining species of big cat left in the world, the Iberian Lynx is the most endangered, even more so than the Siberian tiger. Western Europe’s last remaining big cat is in serious trouble, recent estimations place the number of...
Date Posted: September 24, 2005

Andalucian Cuisine – A Guide

Undoubtedly one of Spain’s most culinary rich regions, Andalusia is an area famed for its cuisine and its culture of food. Much like the rest of Spain, food is an important part of social life; here the meal is about a lot more than simply...
Date Posted: September 23, 2005

The Cuisine Of Madrid - A Guide

The Madrid region (one of Spain’s smallest), as one would expect, is largely dominated by the capital city itself. It has been said, by gourmands and food critics alike, that Madrid does not really have an individual cuisine all of its own,...
Date Posted: September 23, 2005

Catalan Cuisine - A Guide

Barcelona – a city renowned for its cultural diversity and multiple influences and in no area is this more noticeable than its cuisine. Heavily influenced by the surrounding Catalan region and its diverse geographical landscape the area is a...
Date Posted: September 23, 2005

Surfing Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast

The Pacific coast of Costa Rica is fast becoming one of the hippest spots on the backpack merry-go-round. It’s a surfer’s paradise in Central America’s most laid-back holiday spot.
Date Posted: September 13, 2005
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