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Privet boys and girls! I know it was only a few weeks ago when I finished my travelogue-mini-series on our China-2018 trip, but I just know some of you are already missing my daily updates of the red, rocky and rainy landscapes of the various Danxia landforms. Well, just for you, herewith – yet more […]

Hi all! Herewith, two news items from Spain: Our regional office here is celebrating its 10th birthday! As a present to itself, or something like that, it has moved into a new office! Here’s the new office – in Madrid… just like the old one. Not that there was an ‘old’ Spanish office – the […]

Hi folks! Herewith, a brief report from our next Spanish city – Barcelona. Whenever I’m here I try and get myself to the Sagrada Família – the most grandiose building of Barcelona, and possibly of the whole country. Breathtaking, magical… this construction hardly needs an introduction. This time my Sagrada visit turned out to be […]

Not at all far from Bilbao are two spots wholly worthy of inspection when briefly visiting the Basque Country: Getxo and Portugalete, which look something like this:

Ongietorri here means ‘welcome’. While eskerrik asko means ‘thank you’. “But, isn’t Bilbao a Spanish city, where they speak, like, Spanish?”, I can hear some of you wondering. Yes, it is Spanish (on the northern coast of Spain, on the shore of the Bay of Biscay), but it’s also the capital of the Basque Country. […]

Our China-2018 trip continues!… Our next port of call – the city-county of Taining (福建泰宁) in the Fujian province. Actually – not the city, but its Geopark. This is one of the most famous natural tourist attractions in China, on the List of UNESCO Global Geoparks, and so on.