Spain

As part of our ‘Travel Writers Test AI Travel Advice’ series, we set a writer loose on the streets of Barcelona, where he must obey a ChatGPT-generated itinerary. Can AI …

Inspired by Ibn Battuta’s travelogue, “The Rihla,” an author, digging beyond Marbella’s shallow and vacuous facade, seeks a wiser way to travel.

“See the mice in their million hordes,” Bowie sings, “From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.” For most, these lines, from Bowie’s culture-bending 1971 track “Life on Mars?” are intriguing, amusing, …

Seduced by Ernest Hemingway’s romantic descriptions, a traveler tentatively attends a bullfight in Spain. Torn between her internal morality and cultural curiosity, she explores the tension between tradition and brutality; …

Despite its UNESCO World Heritage medieval old city, Moorish cisterns, and delicious jamon iberico, Cáceres‎ in Spain’s Extremadura still somehow manages to cling to that most overused of adjectives, ‘untouched.’ …

Just as the pandemic was forcing everyone into the confines of their homes and apartments, Laura Coffey found herself jobless and struggling to cope with her father’s terminal illness and …

In the latest entry in our The Recovering Backpacker column, Intrepid Times founder Nathan James Thomas reflects on what’s been lost and gained as budget airlines offer ultra-cheap flights across Europe. When …

While enjoying a drink at a taberna in Madrid, a traveler’s attention is pulled between a televised bullfight, the music of nearby slot machines, and the traffic outside. This story …

A traveler and his wife attempt to break up the monotony of eerily similar days in Spain. The Costa Blanca curves around the town, and on the small beach sheltered …