Roger Wheeler

In ancient Greek mythology there was a race of people living on an island somewhere in the Aegean Sea who ate nothing but lotus flowers and lived a wonderful, sybaritic and relaxed life. This is a myth, or is it? I had never been to any of the (nearly) 3,000 islands of which 170 are […]

The Dutch love their Royal Family possibly more than we love our own. Every year since 1948 they have celebrated their Queen’s official birthday on April 30 (or April 29 if it falls on a Sunday) with parties all over the country. It was always known as Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) and Amsterdam alway

Gibraltar is a fascinating place, but not many people have been there. Amazingly, some people think that it’s an island off the coast of Spain rather than a peninsular at the far southern part. Several UK airlines fly there making it a convenient airport to head into the fleshpots of the Costa del S

Over the past ten years we have visited most of the cities in southern Spain: Malaga, Granada, Cordoba, Cadiz and Seville and have invariably loved them all; the climate, the food, the people and the atmosphere. We thought that we had seen all that there was until we discovered Jerez, which at just