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So, you think you know everything about San Fermín?

Katie Sims - 7 Jul, 2012 @ 08:35

Katie Sims in Pamplona

A love affair with tortilla de patatas: A recipe for disaster?

Katie Sims in Pamplona

The mighty Camino de Santiago: The Highlights

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Blood-covered monsters and solar panels – Carnival in Navarra!

Katie Sims - 4 Mar, 2012 @ 20:28

The carnivals of Navarra are almost prehistoric in ritual and rural legend

Katie Sims in Pamplona

The mighty Camino de Santiago

Katie Sims - 16 Sep, 2012 @ 22:36

Olive Press blogger Katie Sims is flirting with the idea of the Camino de Santiago

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Romance in Bilbao

Katie Sims - 23 Mar, 2012 @ 12:49

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

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Look up, it’s Granada!

Katie Sims - 27 Apr, 2012 @ 23:42

Granada requires a neck with 360-degree movement, some billowing hippy trousers and an empty tapas-hungry stomach

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Cool mountain lamb and sizzling sweet peppers

Katie Sims - 6 Feb, 2012 @ 10:34

Katie Sims visits the community market of El Mercado Santo Domingo in Pamplona

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Skiing in Spain – The next big thing

Katie Sims - 12 Mar, 2012 @ 22:55

It's all downhill now for Olive Press blogger Katie Sims

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Save Erasmus!

Katie Sims - 18 Nov, 2012 @ 12:44

The possible bankruptcy of the Erasmus programme was something that hit a nerve with me...

Katie Sims in Pamplona

“Martintxos is the new Juevintxos”

Katie Sims - 13 Dec, 2011 @ 09:30

Katie Sims in Pamplona joins the Olive Press blogging team - and discovers the local pintxos (tapas) in the Navarra region

Katie Sims in Pamplona

The shifting streets of Seville

Katie Sims - 19 Apr, 2012 @ 00:58

In true Semana Santa style, there was rain. When there is rain, the processions are postponed and people weep in disappointment

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Fast-forward in the Pyrenees

Katie Sims - 30 May, 2012 @ 08:36

The Pyrenees is transformed for summer. Bears, snakes, ice-cold rivers and bemused locals

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Sour grapes

Katie Sims - 6 Jan, 2012 @ 20:42

Happy New Year - I missed a massive carnival in Pamplona!

Katie Sims in Pamplona

Do you fancy an adventure, sir? Find somewhere new near you!

Katie Sims - 24 Jan, 2012 @ 23:07

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 is inevitable!

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