Make a plan before you leave ship and reap the rewards of your research, Pam Neville says. She shares some shore excursions from a recent Mediterranean cruise.

Surround yourself with the sights and smells of a Spanish summer, writes Anna Leask.

Five-year-old British brain tumour patient Ashya King is back in Spain from Prague after undergoing proton therapy that is unavailable in Britain, the family's lawyer says.

The Salvadore Dali Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle in Pubol are well worth a visit if you're holidaying in north-eastern Spain.

P.K. Stowers visits Dali's birthplace, home to an enormous range of his art.

Lace up your hiking boots and discover north-east Spain by foot. P.K. Stowers pays homage to Catalonia.

Hiking the Catalonia Classic trail, taking in the Spanish villages of Calella de Palafrugell, Peratallada, Begur and many others.

Latest updates on the Ebola outbreak: New Zealand is "not immune" to the arrival of the deadly Ebola disease, Prime Minister John Key says.

A Spanish nurse sick with Ebola repeatedly reported her symptoms to health authorities but was fobbed off with paracetamol before a final diagnosis.

When P.K. Stowers goes in search of world-class tapas, a cosy venue leaves him happily sated.

A Spanish judge has extended the detention of a British couple arrested for taking their sick son from a British hospital, as sympathy grows for them at home.

P.K. Stowers stays at a 700-year-old Spanish castle.

This 700-year-old Spanish castle will appeal to amateur historians, hikers and those who enjoy fine dining.

A waiter, whose adoptive parents are peasants, claims to be the son of former Spanish king Juan Carlos and has launched a paternity suit.

Edward Gamson was looking forward to viewing the Moorish architecture of Granada. Instead, he was seated on a plane to Grenada. Now he's suing British Airways.

A vet shot a tranquiliser dart at a zoo employee dressed as a gorilla after mistaking him for a primate.

A wrong turn on the motorway led Colin Nicholson to Las Teresitas, one of the best beaches in the Canary Islands.

A nine-year-old girl from Spain who went missing for seven months has been rescued from deep in the Amazonian rainforest.

Graham Reid meets a New Zealander who is living the dream in Spain.

Bare-breasted feminists hurled knickers at the archbishop of Madrid as he arrived at church in protest at his support for a tightening of Spain's abortion law.

The Pope’s new Spanish Cardinal has called homosexuality a physical “defect” that can be cured, it has been reported.

What really happens on a European coach tour when the travellers are a few decades older than the Contiki generation? Ewan McDonald tried to find out.

To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbour playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation.

Spain's hanging houses and galleries captivate James Lane long after he leaves them behind.

A British granny was shocked to find the flight she was on wasn't heading to Granada in Spain - but Grenada in the Caribbean. So what did the air crew do next?

A Spanish judge has risked the ire of women everywhere after ruling that a driving school was within its rights to charge females more because "men were better drivers".

Manuel Meyer takes a close look at beautiful fish off the Spanish coast.