Press Reviews

Clover Stroud gets her motor running in the wilds of southern Spain.

..." This is a hauntingly lovely and little-known corner of Spain."

..." Combining adventure, romance and some awesome landscape, this is a brilliant holiday ."

..."With warm air in your face, the sun on your bare arms, it really was a lovely way to travel. You’re closer to the environment in every way, you can smell the soil, hear the birds, watch the road zip past beneath you."

..."El Cortijo Alto de Cariatiz was an old farmhouse surrounded by seven cute cortija, or bungalows, plonked up a hill in the middle of a vast expanse of very little. Once again, the peace was engulfing. After our Italian Job-style journey, we rewarded ourselves with a Spanish beer by the pool, listening to the occasional bleating of goats echoing around the valley."

Riding Vespas is exhilarating, and Top Gear types might be tempted to burn up the empty, winding tarmac ribbons. But that would be missing the point, which is to meander and be effortless.

A weekend in Spain doesn't have to mean shopping and sangria. Gemma Bowes is the first to test-drive a new Vespa tour around the mountains north of Madrid.