THE TRAINThe “El Transcantabrico” winds its leisurely way through the majestic provinces of old northern Spain - a journey through high mountains, past lakes and impressive seascapes and across the undulating landmass that so typifies the Cantabrian coast and old Castile

**The train also runs in reverse direction: Santiago de Compostela - San Sebastian  on selected departure days from May to October**

"You are what you eat", as the saying goes and there is no better way to learn about a country and its culture than through its food and drink. Andalucia, still one of Spain’s largest food-producing regions, is steeped in culinary and gastronomic traditions.

Between the city of Granada and the Mediterranean coast is a beautiful, sub-tropical corner of rural Andalucía known as the Lecrín Valley. It’s easy to understand why the Moorish occupiers in the early middle ages christened it “The Valley of Happiness”: the valley offers natural protection against the heat of...