Furry faces are transforming fundraising
Here are a few hairy faces from Pamplona. If you laugh, you have to donate. If you don’t laugh, you have to donate because at least that’ll make you smile
Save Erasmus!
The possible bankruptcy of the Erasmus programme was something that hit a nerve with me...
The mighty Camino de Santiago: The Highlights
With films about the Camino de Santiago emerging all over the world, it is more popular than ever
The mighty Camino de Santiago
Olive Press blogger Katie Sims is flirting with the idea of the Camino de Santiago
So, you think you know everything about San Fermín?
This fiesta is known worldwide. It’s Pamplona’s biggest event of the year. But do you really know what it’s all about?
Have you been in Portugal?
As a teacher of English in Spain, reading the news recently that Spain ranks lowest in English proficiency in the whole of Europe brought me to despair
Festival Tres Sesenta invades
This carefully thought-out and intelligently executed festival marked a big moment for the music scene in the unassuming city of Pamplona
Music is all around…
Spain is full of music - it’s deep within their artistic culture
Fast-forward in the Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is transformed for summer. Bears, snakes, ice-cold rivers and bemused locals
A love affair with tortilla de patatas: A recipe for disaster?
I don't know about you but one of the things I love most about Spain is the food
Look up, it’s Granada!
Granada requires a neck with 360-degree movement, some billowing hippy trousers and an empty tapas-hungry stomach
The shifting streets of Seville
In true Semana Santa style, there was rain. When there is rain, the processions are postponed and people weep in disappointment
I’m not your media naranja
Tu media naranja: your other half, your better half, your soul mate
Solidarity in Pamplona
Public sector workers heatedly debated their rights. They wanted paralysis, impact and an element of mayhem
Romance in Bilbao
The romance echoes over the cobbled streets, past the black rimmed shop windows and streams down the sparkling bridge-laced river to the impressive Guggenheim Museum
Skiing in Spain – The next big thing
It's all downhill now for Olive Press blogger Katie Sims
Blood-covered monsters and solar panels – Carnival in Navarra!
The carnivals of Navarra are almost prehistoric in ritual and rural legend
A lover of things in Madrid
Madrid is an unassuming capital. Flying over the city a few weeks ago this pilgrim watched it emerge suddenly from roads that twist and turn like ribbons, following a patchwork of brown,
Cool mountain lamb and sizzling sweet peppers
Katie Sims visits the community market of El Mercado Santo Domingo in Pamplona
Do you fancy an adventure, sir? Find somewhere new near you!
Golly chaps, it’s Geocaching time with the Famous Five. The world is reliving their childhood with a mischievous treasure hunt that is guided by a virtual network of clues. Warning: childish behaviour
I have quite a lot of fish to fry today
"Language is wine upon the lips" said Virginia Woolf. Well, my language ability does certainly increase with a glass of wine!
Sour grapes
Happy New Year - I missed a massive carnival in Pamplona!
Like sardines in a retro tin can – a microfestival in Pamplona
A POP-UP concert by film maker, photographer and blogger, Korova with Wilhelm and the Dancing Animals
Bethlehem and wine bottles
An exhibition of The Asociación de Belenistas de Pamplona, an association of nativity scene artists, brought a little traditional Christmas cheer
“Martintxos is the new Juevintxos”
Katie Sims in Pamplona joins the Olive Press blogging team - and discovers the local pintxos (tapas) in the Navarra region