Hiking

Several generations of readers have been lured to Spain by the words of Ernest Hemingway. I was drawn first to Pamplona by his immortal...

It took me ten days from the point where I crossed the Andalucia frontier – over the Arroyo de la Víbora (Ravine of the Viper) – to complete the 350km trek across the shimmering plains of Extremadura. Now, in two hours more, I’d cross the border into Castilla y León, a province so gigantic that all of Portugal would fit into it with room to spare for the country of Andorra. Extract: ‘…All that was lacking was a place to shower and somewhere to do my laundry. I hoped that Las