It rained a lot last night. The water levels in the reservoirs are down to 25% so this is clearly a good thing. On a purely selfish level, though, heavy rain in Spain is always a pain. In our case, a downpour in the middle of night means leaping out of bed and sprinting across […]

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Having just returned from a press trip to Butlins in Skegness, I have the urge to rant about the hospitality attitude in Tenerife.
I have to admit that my expectations were fairly modest. I was a Butlins virgin, and as such, I had only the misconception of all-day Bingo, sychophantic Redcoats and noon-till-night knobbly-knee contests as […]

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Part of the enjoyment of running The Fusion Gallery is sourcing fabulous new artists, and as Altea is quiet through the months of January and February this is exactly what I have been keeping myself busy doing! In some cases artists will present themselves to me, either in person or they will send images of […]

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So while Benaque is easy to say and easy to spell, it still belongs to the municipality of the unpronounceable unspellable Macharaviaya. Plus no-one has ever heard of it, so you have to go through the Machara-qué ? bit all the same. Actually, it’s not quite true that no-one has ever heard of it. Outside […]

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There’s a question I dread people asking me. It follows the where do you live bit and takes about nine hours for both of us to get right. ¿Machara-qué? ¿Cómo se deletrea? How do you spell that? How indeed. Macharaviaya – pronounced Ma-cha-ra-bee-YAI-ya, and almost impossible to say without sounding drunk - is a modestly-sized […]

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Hi, my name is Judy Webber I am a 40ish single British female living in Altea, the cultural centre of the Costa Blanca. I am the Founder and Director of The Fusion Gallery.

You may know me already - I was featured in the television programme Living on the Costa Blanca which has been aired […]

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My writing colleagues in the UK often ask “What’s it like being a travel writer in Tenerife?”
Well, like any journalists in Spain will find, it’s got its plus and minus points. There’s no arguing that being a travel writer anywhere is a marvellous way to spend your working life, but for me, being a travel […]

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