What I like about the Spanish capital is that it is small enough in the city centre to walk to most places. Local still reigns. It's a city of neighbourhoods, or barrios, each...

Salvador Dalí believed he was the reincarnation of the rugged Cap de Creus – the barren, windswept headland north of the seaside town of Cadaques on the Costa Brava, on the way to the border with...

The city of Girona is a 38-minute train journey north of Barcelona. Much smaller than the Catalan capital, Girona is a doable size for a weekend. You can walk everywhere, the food is good, the...

Girona once served as a passageway for the Romans on their way through 'Hispania'. Fast forward a couple of thousand years and the city is a passageway for a different kind of visitor: the food-loving...

Good seafood is a luxury. I found it at Estimar, an intimate little restaurant, with Andalusian-born Rafa Zarfa at the helm. You can find Estimar in a side alleyway in the old city of Barcelona. Look...