Our group was fortunate to spend a half-day e-biking through medieval villages we might otherwise not have considered in Catalunya’s Baix Empordà. E-biking through medieval villages gives you an unanticipated perspective. You can go fast enough – with an electric boost for inclines and lengthy distances – to visit several villages in a short period …
Our four favorite Baix Empordà coastal villages are the hub of the Costa Brava fishing tradition and lifestyle in its most prestigious area. The Baix Empordà, which is the southerly half of the Empordà region of Catalunya, is located in the northeast portion of the Iberian peninsula. Inhabited since Paleolithic times, it has been under …
“But here, enough talking, let’s taste,” Ivica Matosevic smiles as he pours his Malvasia. We’re sitting at a picnic table on the veranda of Ivica’s wine cellar in Kruncici, the middle of Istria. It’s the beginning of my love affair with the best wine in Croatia.
Our introduction to England came when friendly little communities welcomed us into West Sussex village life amid the beautiful backdrop of the South Downs. If you’ve read English literature, you’ve imagined yourself in an English village. Perhaps your mind’s eye places you in Kent along with Pip in Great Expectations, or as a Brontë character …
While many visitors opt for crowded resorts, they miss out. We recommend visiting Mallorca calas, Mediterranean coves where life is lived in a slower lane. Mallorca is lots more than the glitz and late-night carousing that many associate with the more crowded areas of the Balearic Islands. We spent two weeks in Mallorca and fell …
“Christopher Columbus had a pocketful of beans.” This engaging imagery bridged our two Context Travel Barcelona tours: Gothic Quarter and City of Chocolate. Arriving in a city we’d never visited, we welcomed the opportunity to acclimate ourselves by taking two Context Travel Barcelona tours: City of Chocolate and Gothic Quarter. Little did we realize a …
Visit La Moreneta, the patron saint of Catalonia, at the spiritual destination of Montserrat, an essential day trip from Barcelona. We cover how to get to Montserrat from Barcelona, choosing the best tour to Montserrat, and three choices of hotel in Montserrat, Spain’s very popular religious and historical site. We’d stumbled into the basilica at …