Driving south from my home base in Jerez, I naturally like to put some flamenco on the radio.  Flamenco is that uniquely Spanish art form where, encapsulated within the syncopated rhythms, electrifying guitar, lyrics, melismatic wails and cries, is the history of Andalusia itself: Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, Muslims and Gypsies, who all contributed their […]

It’s a good hour before sunrise as our party of six board a Blackfin powerboat.  A thin mist of rain dissipates as the first light of dawn emerges from the brooding clouds in the distance.  Our vessel cleaves through thankfully still waters as we leave the port of Barbate  in southern Spain.  A cool poniente […]