Adventures in Extremadura

11/09/2024

We made it! Huge thanks for all your support on the last mile to help build the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. More news on that coming soon.

(Please note that the 900km walk was completed last year. This was a sponsored walk after the fact, and this is your last chance to donate! Thank you).

https://donorbox.org/peter-barron-fundraiser

02/06/2024

06/12/2023

Latest blogpost, about archaeology...

We are standing in a graveyard. To be more precise, it is a necropolis, some 3,000 years old.

16/11/2023

Frommer's Spain authors on when to go, what to do, and other tips from our guidebook

31/03/2023

Latest blogpost, about El Camino...

I'm not at all religious, but serendipitous moments spanning decades have drawn me to El Camino, the Way of St James.

24/07/2022

Great piece about Badajoz province in El Pais. "A trip through the borderlands of southern Extremadura, among white villages, hams and templars."

Esta región de la provincia de Badajoz ofrece una fascinante historia, un paisaje de castillos y dehesas, buenos vinos espumosos y tesoros culinarios como el cerdo ibérico

21/11/2021

Discover Fuentes de León - just named as one of Spain's magical villages...

30/10/2021

PETER BARRON on his visit to Spain’s largest livestock fair, now in its 568th year.

30/09/2021

Latest column: a night at the monastery...

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures