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 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.

"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...