San Sebastián de Garabandal: Our Honest Family Stay From 10 to 13 July 2021 we stayed in an Airbnb room in San Sebastián de Garabandal, a mountain village in Cantabria, with Damian (8) and Marc…
Llanes, Asturias with Kids: Beaches, the Paseo de San Pedro and the Painted Cubes Llanes was our last stop in Asturias. On 10 July 2021 we drove east from our base in Novellana with Damian…
Playa de Aguilar, Asturias: A Family Beach Guide After the cliffs and stone coves around Cudillero, Playa de Aguilar is the easy one: golden sand, lifeguards, a big car park and a short flat walk…
Gijón with Kids: San Lorenzo Beach, Cimavilla and Where to Stay Gijón is the biggest city on the Asturian coast. It has a long city beach, an old fishing quarter on a headland, and a…
Things to Do in Tapia de Casariego with Kids Tapia de Casariego is the last Asturian harbour town before Galicia, and the far western end of our July 2021 road trip with Damian (8) and…
Lastres, Asturias with Kids: The Village, the Beach and the Best View Lastres is a fishing village built almost vertically on a hillside above its harbour, in the municipality of Colunga, about 40 km east…
Valdés, a stunning municipality in the Asturias region of northern Spain, is a treasure trove of natural beauty, historical charm, and cultural richness. Our road trip through Asturias brought us to this enchanting area, where…
Cadavedo is a small village in the municipality of Valdés, on the western coast of Asturias between Cudillero and Luarca. It was named the most beautiful village in Asturias in 1954. Most people come for…
Cudillero is the fishing village on every Asturias postcard: pastel houses stacked up a steep hillside around a small harbour, facing the Cantabrian Sea like the seats of an amphitheatre. We visited in July 2021…
Luarca, Asturias with Kids: The White Harbour Town Luarca is called the Villa Blanca, the white town: whitewashed houses climbing up from a small fishing harbour where the Río Negro meets the sea. It’s about…
Novellana, Asturias: Where We Stayed Novellana is a tiny rural parish in the municipality of Cudillero, on the western coast of Asturias. It has no harbour, no promenade and very few people. It was our…