Spain

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Taking a ferry to Spain is more like a cruise than a ferry journey. Your holiday begins the second that you step on board the ship, like the luxury P&O Pride of Bilbao with cinema, health suite, shopping and a wealth of restaurants and foods. The journey can take up to 35 hours so get on board, relax and enjoy your cruise. Alternatively take the shorter route from Plymouth to Santander with Brittany Ferries, flag ship Pont-Aven, you'll arrive in the cosmopolitan city of Santander completely relaxed. By searching all operators tickets4Ferries can offer you the cheapest ferry to Spain, so why not book ferry tickets online now with tickets4Ferries.

A country of large geographical and cultural diversity, Spain is sometimes a surprise to people who know its reputation for great beach holidays. There is everything from lush meadows , snowy mountains, huge marsh and salines, and some desert zones in east Andalusia. Mainland Spain is dominated by high plateaus and mountain ranges such as the Pyrenees or the Sierra Nevada.

Wherever you are in Spain, from your private yacht you can enjoy gorgeous scenery and distance yourself from the crowds of tourists that flock to these destinations. May is a particularly pleasant time to charter in the regions of Costa Brava, Costa Blanca and the Balearic Islands as the weather is good and the crowds have yet to descend. The summer months of July and August are the hottest and tend to have lighter winds. There is no low season for the Canary Islands, as the weather resembles springtime all year round.

The Spanish are very passionate about their food and wine and Spanish cuisine. Spanish food can be described as quite light with a lot of vegetables and a huge variety of meat and fish. The Spanish cuisine does not use many spices; it relies only on the use of high quality ingredients to give a good taste.

The entry level to Spanish food is found in bars as tapas, which are a bit like "starters" or "appetizers", but are instead considered side orders to accompany your drink. Some bars will offer a variety of different tapas; others specialize. A Spanish custom is to have one tapa and one small drink at a bar, then go to the next bar and do the same. Tourists are easily spotted when they load their plates full of tapas.

Restaurants deliver a wide range of food. In coastal areas seafood deserves some attention, especially on the north Atlantic coast. Spanish are very concerned about the freshness of seafood and you may place an order only to have the waiter tell you that he can not serve this dish, because they did not receive this particular seafood freshly that day. It is very unlikely to find dishes prepared from frozen fish in a real Spanish restaurant. Obviously so much freshness has its toll and seafood is quite pricey. Meat products are usually of very good quality, because Spain has maintained quite a high percentage of free range animals. A specialty is "jamón iberico" from free range pigs.

Ferries to Spain include Plymouth to Santander operated by Brittany Ferries and Portsmouth to Bilbao operated by P&O Ferries.