Beach holidays are popular among tourists around the world, but especially among the British and other European tourists, who find beach holidays as the perfect escape from their native winters. This is the reason why millions and millions of tourists from these regions crowd the beaches around the world especially the beaches in Europe. The Algarve region in Portugal and the Spanish coastlines are especially the most favourite spots of tourists from Britain and Northern Europe, who find many fa

Lanzarote is a small volcanic island located off the coast of West Africa. One of the seven Spanish owned Canaries that are a hot favourite with tourists from sun starved Northern European nations such as the UK, Eire and Germany.Whilst intrepid Victorian travellers visited the island during the 19th century modern package tourism first took off on Lanzarote in the 1970´s. As General Franco opened Spain up to foreign visitors in order to aid the nations ailing economy.By the 1980´s over 2 mill

Greenpeace has just published a report on the state of the coastline in Spain .It provides an in-depth study of the activities which it claims are defacing the country’s 8000 kilometre of coastline.For the first time Greenpeace has done a detailed analysis of 233 protected areas around the coast and of these more than half are being threatened by development of one sort or another.Some are also being threatened by contamination of some type. In the Valencia region alone protected areas are bei

In: Home & Family 12Jul2009 by Rob CarltonAffordable holiday fun in the Costa Blanca Sun and fun in the Mediterranean Sea is synonymous to the Costa Blanca, the Spanish coastal area. The Costa Blanca is considered the property of the Province of Alicante, beginning with the town of Denia and winding up in Pilar de la Horadada or Torrevieja, as the last significant town in the province. The coastline from here becomes more picturesque than ever and if you are driving, you’ll want to keep your c

Rally Islas Canarias “Trofeo El Corte Ingles” 2009 results: Sergio Vallejo wins Sergio Vallejo has won the Rally Islas Canarias (Rd 2 Spanish tarmac championship) for the third time in-a-row in his Porsche 911 977 GT3.Miguel Fuster finished second with his Porsche and leads the championship after two rounds. Santiago Concepcion took third in another Porsche with Xevi Pons fourth in the Group N+ Mitsubishi EvoX. Enrique Garcia Ojeda brought his Subaru Rally Team Spain machine home in fif