Galicia through British Eyes (As Seen on TV!)

Within the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, Galicia is known for its food, which Galician people proudly celebrate on many occasions during the year, and especially at the ‘festas’ (parties) that take place throughout the whole summer in every village and city, big or small. It is therefore no surprise that it has been this side …

On Travel Writing and Narratives of Mobility

Travel and literature are almost inseparable. Tzevetan Todorov goes even further: ‘what is not a journey?’, he asks in Les morales de l’histoire ([1991] 1995: 60). Indeed, the journey as the representation of life itself is a recurrent trope since antiquity.  ‘Is life anything more than the passage from birth to death?’ (1995: 60) the …