Posted on July 06, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Pamplona is waking up to the start of San Fermin, its controversial nine-day festival in honour of the city’s patron saint. The most famous event of the festival is of course, the Running of the Bulls (Encierro in Spanish). This takes place every morning of the festival. Whether you agree with the tradition [...]

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Hi there, Myself and my husband are planning a trip to the Spanish Grand Prix this May. It looks like we managed to get our hands on some of the last remaining grandstand tickets, so we’ve decided to make a weekend of it. We’re renting a car at Barcelona Airport and hoping to drive to [...]

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia Barcelona is truly enchanting at this time of the year. Not only does the sun return to the city, but chocolate mania takes hold.  Right about now, confectioners and cake shop owners are feverishly whipping up mona de pascua (sugary sculptures) of everything from popular cartoon characters to cute scale models of the city’s very own [...]

Posted on March 04, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia You say Gerona, I say Girona.  Ok, so nobody quite knows how this Catalonian city should be spelt, but how could they? It doesn’t grab all the headlines like funky little Barcelona or sophisticated Madrid.  What Girona (from here on in I’ll stick with this spelling) does have is charm. Yep. In [...]

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

    We all know what a kerfuffle this year’s shortage of car hire in Spain caused.  You paid inflated prices or you were left high and dry without a set of wheels to get you from town to beach. And now it emerges that it was all down to one man, Joan Mesquida. It [...]

Posted on September 02, 2009 by Fiona Hilliard

    This week our Question of the Week comes from a customer called Andrea who contacted us with security concerns about her rental car.   Andrea says:   Hi   I have hired a car in Barcelona and I am a bit concerned about my personal security after hearing stories of luggage being stolen [...]