Take it from us, this impressive, progressive country's miles beyond iconic but stereotypical bullfights, flamenco, and mass beach tourism, with historic sights reaching back to the era of ancient Greece, wine regions, skiing, some of Europe's most cutting-edge culture; and a gorgeous tapestry of different cultures and languages. ¡Viva España!
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Our recent weekend in Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa
Our recent weekend in Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa Posted by David Paul Appell on August 12, 2026 at 10:09am Photos by David Paul Appell unless otherwise noted Both my husband and I have always had something of a fascination for oddities of geography, and so Spain´s two cities of Ceuta and Melilla, on the coast of North Africa, had been forever on my bucket list. Since moving to Spain, we ticked Melilla off that list three years ago, and this past spring we finally made…
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However, there is so, so much more to Spain than that - Madrid and Barcelona are fabulous cities, there are wonderful cultural sites like Sevilla and Granada in Andalucia, then there is fantastic countryside with mountain villages and more.
On top of all of that, the food gets better and better and so does the wine, plus the mark-up on the wines in the restaurants is much lower than in most countries, so you can eat and drink very well indeed.
The Daily Mail (UK) reports: "Spain's air traffic controllers have called off a strike planned for later this month, saying they don't want to further dent the country's troubled tourism industry."
Unusual, no?
"The [Spanish] media reported one study claiming the publicity from [Michelle Obama's] visit would be worth $1 billion for a country where tourism is at its lowest level in seven years." What I don't get is why tourism has fallen off in the first place.
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