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Totally Spain's Guide to the Rioja Winery Region
Rather like its wine, the region of La Rioja in Northern Spain is an elegant and very traditional region – nothing too brash or overly showy here. It’s famous for its ruby red wine – it was the first region to achieve ‘Denominacion de Origin’ (DO) in Spain but it’s also w
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Cantabria in the Summer Holidays
We’ve been busy following a number of bloggers trips to Cantabria and are not surprised how much they LOVE the region. They’re not alone. It’s getting a bit busy here and the season is only just beginning. In addition to the surfers and fans of sailing that are starting to arrive into the
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Open Air Theatres in Spain
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The Vibrancy of Spain in September
September is a fantastic month to visit Spain. Not so hot, not so crowded and when much of the Northern hemisphere is switching on the heating and getting out the boots and sweaters, you are still able to enjoy a day out on the sea or a hike and picnic in the hills.
It’s a lovely time to be in
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The Art, Love and Tradition of Sharing Food in Spain
If you only spend a day in Spain, you can’t help noticing how people love to share food. Outside of breakfast, if you’re travelling in Spain, you’ll have countless opportunities to share a morsel. It’s so intrinsic to the dining experience that it’s built into the menus. But do you know wh
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Totally Spain's Practical Guide of What to Pack for Spain
We’ve just come off the phone from a client asking what to pack for Spain. It’s something we are often asked – usually with the subtext of how the person can avoid looking like a tourist. While we don’t think that everybody should look the same (how boring would that be!) here’
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Totally Spain Wins the Great Wine Capitals Guest Blogger Contest
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Shhhh. Totally Spain is getting a new website...
We’re celebrating our 15th birthday this year and will be launching a new website to celebrate.
Totally Spain is celebrating 15 years in business in 2015. Photo credit: Creative Commons Birthday Cake and Candles via photopin (license)
We’ve been busy preparing fresh content and test
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Totally Spain’s Guide to Popular Movies Filmed in Spain
We know that great films, like all creative arts, can inspire. Here we bring you some of Spain’s stunning backdrops that you might have enjoyed on the silver screen. Some are obviously filmed in Spain but there are a few surprises in there you might not have expected!
Here are the 16 movi
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Totally Spain’s Guide to the Most Spectacular Driving Routes in Spain
Nothing says holidays more than a car, a suitcase, sunglasses, and the open road. And here in Spain, we have a wonderful road infrastructure including shiny new three-lane highways that get you out of the cities and plenty of those romantic rural roads that snake around the mountain ridges and c
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The Best Plazas in Spain - Spectacular Spaces to Experience the Spanish Way of Life
If there’s one place you need to visit in every Spanish town, it’s the main square often called the Plaza Mayor. Traditionally it’s where bullfights took place and it was often the location for outdoor foodmarkets and theatres too. Today it’s all about the tables and the people and the activitie
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Totally Spain's Guide to the Best Bridges in Spain
Spurred on by the re-opening of the vertigo-inducing Caminito del Rey walking route complete with bridge, we’ve decided here at Totally Spain to pull together our favourite Spanish ‘puentes’ or bridges. We’ve got a bit of everything in here – Roman bridges, foot bridges, hanging brid
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Why Totally Spain likes to Visit Portugal
We’ve just re-visited Portugal over the Easter holidays and thought we’d share some of our Portuguese trip with you. It’s the fourth family holiday there in less than two years. We love it as a location for our own downtime and we also arrange many client trips from Spain into Portugal so
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Totally Bodegas - Which are the Best Wineries in Spain to Visit?
It’s no wonder we are obsessed about wine here at Totally Spain. Spain is the world’s largest producer of wine and the country with the largest number of vineyards in the world – a whopping 13 percent of the world’s vineyards are on Spanish soil. We love telling our clients that after cere
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Totally Spain's Guide to the Best Shopping in Spain
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Totally Spain's Guide to the Best Monuments & Museums in Spain
With an over-whelming number of UNESCO-listed monuments and world-class museums in Spain to choose from, one of our primary tasks when engaged by a client is to shortlist what they see and do. How does that work and where do we recommend?
Unless our clients have highlighted a particular interes
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Totally Spain’s Guide to Weird, Quirky & Odd Things in Spain
We are often struck by how different Spain can seem for first time visitors so we’ve decided to put together a guide to the Odd, Weird & Quirky Things in Spain for those of you novices coming to Spain. In case you don’t know us, we should state that we adore Spain and that most o
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Totally Spain's Guide to the Most Impressive Spanish Paradores
Sore feet and tired legs. That’s what many of us end up with after a day’s sightseeing. That’s why it’s so important to pick a great hotel to recover from pavement pounding. And if that hotel is a historic landmark in the city centre or with a great view of an iconic landmark, those aches and pa
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Totally Spain’s Guide to the Best Walled Towns in Spain
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Totally Spain’s Guide to Boutique Destinations in Spain
When we started our travel business 15 years ago, we were planning lots of “once-in-a-lifetime” trips to Spain and our job was to make sure that all the “must-sees” were included on each itinerary. So much has changed since then. Because air travel has become much more affordab
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