Bonkers bonuses for Spanish civil servants
As Jerez Town Hall addresses €1,000m of debt by scrapping staff bonuses, Eloise Horsfield considers some of the crazy payments still being offered to thousands
The mighty Camino de Santiago
Olive Press blogger Katie Sims is flirting with the idea of the Camino de Santiago
Mo Farah snaps go viral
Photoshopped pictures of Olympic athlete Mo Farah are spreading fast across the web. Here’s the Gold medalist ‘running with the bulls’ in Pamplona…
Brit compares Pamplona bull goring to being stabbed
The 29-year-old was gored in the leg while running with the bulls at the San Fermin festival
The lunacy begins as thousands flock to Pamplona to run with the bulls
IT may look like a scene from Borat, but this Sacha Baron Cohen lookalike is actually just one of thousands of tourists who have flocked
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
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
Green vino on show in Spain
Spain is set to host the third International Organic Wine Fair
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
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!
Review of 2011… from the mountains
Here’s Paul Whitelock’s personal review of the year – of events which have affected Spain in general and the Serranía de Ronda, where he lives,
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
“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
Spain not cool? Who are you trying to kid?
As British youth turns its back on Spain, the Olive Press gives the tourist board some suggestions on how to win them back again...
What’s the point of Pamplona?
TRAVEL SPECIAL: James Bryce takes his life in his hands at the celebrated Running of the Bulls in Pamplona and discovers there is plenty more
What a cultured bunch!
Next week a shortlist will be drawn up to decide on which Spanish city will become Europe’s City of Culture in 2016. Nicola Cowell takes
Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona
American journalist Sara Wallace, 20, is not as impressed as fellow writer Ernest Hemingway after spending 24 hours at Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls festival
Teenager gored to death at running of the bulls
The 19-year-old was killed while participating in a pre-dawn running of the bulls in Zamora
My reality TV experience on the Way of St James
With 2010 being the Xacabeo and the year to resolve your sins by undertaking the Camino de Santiago, Tracy Saunders recalls how she started alone,
Bloodiest ever Pamplona
Fatal goring resparks bull run debate