Tag: Spain

When Sophie hits surf | Paddle boarding with Mediterranean surf school

.Reading time 7 minutes.

  I’m going to start this off by saying that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a ‘sea’ person. I’m not even a ‘water’ person, unless feeling at your absolute best lying in a two hour bath counts. I’m not a strong swimmer, I hate my head going under water, and the […]

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A case of modern Europe in Irun, Spain

.Reading time 10 minutes.

“My daughter is working in Shrewsbury” In Irun, Northern Spain, just across the border from France, if you don’t speak Spanish then you speak French. The answer becomes clear the minute you park up in the Alcamp supermarket not ten minutes away from clearing the toll booth at the border. Here almost every second car […]

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