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Teaching kids to ski: It’s snow joke!

Jon Clarke on the terrors of trying to teach your own children how to ski in Sierra Nevada

If you are fat, don’t fly Ryanair

Not one to miss out on a big opportunity, Ryanair is thinking of charging obese passengers more to use their flights

A cook’s tour of Ronda

Over the last few years Ronda has become increasingly popular for lovers of good food

New runway for Malaga airport tipped to create a tourism take-off

The new runway will double the capacity of the airport and accomodate state-of-the-art airplanes

Uncovering the hidden gems of Chiclana de la Frontera

Wendy Andersen on the hidden delights of her home town of Chiclana

Sun, snow and spray

The Olive Press sent reporter Annabel Grossman to try out one of the most bizarre (and hardy) day out Andalucia can offer... bikini skiing in the morning and a Puerto Banus champagne party in the afternoon

The Mijas miniatures museum that’s no small feat

Professor Max's Wagon of Miniatures is one of the world’s best small museums, writes Imogen Calderwood

Valley of calm at La Cala Resort

Olive Press editor Jon Clarke spends a weekend at Spain’s leading golf hotel

Tolkien-shire: The best of the Axarquia

Wild soaring mountains, crystal brooks and elegant white-washed villages. Tom Powell is blown away by the stunning, varied Axarquia region en route to its ‘crown’ of Comares

Castle-hopping in the Serrania de Ronda

Jacqueline Fanchini takes a road trip around the castle towns of the Western edge of the Serrania de Ronda

Brits on the pistes

British ski teachers Giles Birch and Jonathan Buzzard still love the Sierra Nevada two decades on

Not so Lanzagrotty

On a recent trip to the most northern of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote, I was amazed at the breathtaking landscape and sheer diversity of food.

From Andalucía to the Antarctic

Expat Tiki Kyte joins a BBC crew retracing the steps of explorer Frank Wild who a century ago conquered the Frozen Planet

Mojacar the mystic mount

Lenox Napier offers a history of Mojacar and how the town got its name

Riding the wind: Kite-surfing on the Costa del Sol

The Costa de la Luz is one of Spain’s top spots for kitesurfing – and good for diving too

TripAdvisor on trial: An Olive Press investigation

EXCLUSIVE: The Olive Press takes an objective look at the phenomenal success of TripAdvisor...with some surprising results

Lost in the Axarquia

Eloise Horsfield describes how she ended up on a ‘village hop’ tour of the Axarquia after getting lost

Is this the way to Alhaurin?

The UK's Joanna Eden finds inspiration in the Guadalhorce Valley

You can’t go wrong with Skisol

A family-run business that has been providing rental equipment to skiers for 35 years shows no sign of dwindling

Room with a view – El Torcal

EL Torcal Park Nature Reserve is known as the enchanted mountain range. It is not somewhere for the faint hearted or for those scared...

Oh I do like to be beside the lakeside

Fancy somewhere different to lay down your towel this weekend? Is the Costa del Sol just too busy and the Costa de la Luz too windy?

The Artist’s Way

Robberies, heroin overdoses and Spain’s best beer. John Colley has experienced a lot while sketching his way along the little-known branches of the Camino (or Way) de Santiago

On the gecko trail

Jon Clarke takes a stroll around Andalucia’s most artistic, creative town

Gibraltar airport in limbo

Local Spanish mayor is refusing to sell land for the new cross-border airport

The satnav rebels

Up to 83 per cent of men – and 74 per cent of women – often disregard their car’s GPS directions

Axarquia: A land of rebellion and renaissance

Why I fell in love with the confusing ham-shaped wedge of rutted hills and dry river valleys known as the Axarquia

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