I’m delighted to introduce one of my favourite fun travel memoir authors this month. Simon Michael Prior has not been writing all that...

I think I have a photographic memory. No, I don’t mean that I remember everything I read (I wish!), but that photographs are often the...

I love to photograph the different seasons here in Galicia and am so lucky to live in such a photogenic spot. I don’t even have to leave...

New Year is the traditional time for looking back on the year which is ending, and forward to the one just beginning. I’m looking forward...

Jacqueline Lambert and the Fab Four on Monte Rosa, Italy It’s about time I did another guest blog and who better than an author whose...

Glorious Scottish scenery Anyone who has been following me on Facebook will know that we have now returned home from a mammoth,...

The castle on Holy Island, Northumberland We’ve had a fabulous time exploring Britain this September. There is so much to see and do. Our...

The Fortaleza de Valença As you know, due to unfortunate circumstances, we didn’t make it to Tui last month for hubby’s birthday. Now, he...

My July blog was going to be about our trip to Tui in the south of Galicia, a place we’d never visited – and still haven’t. Circumstances...

It's a hard life - Workaway, lazing on a beach somewhere We discovered Workaway, or one of its sister organisations, back in 2007 when we...

May 17th was Galician Literature Day (Día de las Letras Galegas) here in Northwest Spain. The day, which is a Galician holiday, was...

Ons Island was a delight from first view. We sat on the open deck of the small ferry, the wind tugging my cap and blowing through my thin...

The banks of the Miño We did a different route for our Sunday walk this week. “I’m fed up with hills,” I said. From our A Casa do Campo,...

A Casa do Campo I know it's not spring quite yet but it’s difficult to hold fire in the garden (as I know I really should) when the...

Not so fat dogs in beautiful France Beth Haslam is the author of the Fat Dogs and French Estates series of travelogue memoirs. She has a...

2021 ends, as the sun rises on a new year over A Casa do Campo It’s that time again, to look back on another year and to look forward to...

November mists November is chestnut time here in Galicia. I vividly remember the first year we stayed in a (icy cold) rented flat here;...

To paraphrase the Ourensano poet, Vicente Risco, ‘although she is small, Galicia contains a whole world, and each time you return, you...

September is always a busy time at A Casa do Campo. Firstly, we have the tomatoes ripening madly and needing preserving. This rather...

August has been a rather significant month for us since we arrived in Galicia. It was our eleventh wedding anniversary yesterday; eleven...