Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
The northern Spanish destination of Barcelona is set to ban the sale of tacky tourist souvenirs in a bid to project a better international image of […]
Following in the footsteps of Vigo, in the northern region of Galicia, which introduced fines of up to €750 for “physiological evacuation on the beach or […]
With summer in full swing, Spanish environmental organisation Ecologistas en Acción (Ecologists in Action), which comprises over 300 local environmental groups has released a list of the country’s 48 most […]
Madrid, Spain, has banned the granting of new licences for tourist flats, following in the footsteps of its Catalan sister, Barcelona, as the whole country battles […]
A town on Spain’s Costa Brava is saying a firm “No gracias” to bawdy bachelor and bachelorette parties, with a new ban on sexual paraphernalia and obscene items […]
Spanish authorities have issued fines to four low-cost airlines over hand luggage charges and other abusive practices. Easyjet, Ryanair, Volotea and Vueling have all been fined […]
Protests have taken place across the Spanish Balearic Islands this weekend due to overtourism, amid resident calls for authorities to take action. Police estimates put the […]
I wrote last week about the protests against overtourism in the Canaries. Protests which involved eleven people going on a twenty-day hunger strike. The Canary Islands are exhausted. […]
In signs of more unrest in the hospitality and tourism sector in the Spanish Balearic Islands, a hoteliers’ organisation has demanded “a strategic plan” to address […]
Officials in Zaragoza, northern Spain, have proposed measures to make cycling insurance obligatory in the city. Under the new regulations, put forward by far-right group Vox […]
The capital city of Spain, Madrid is unsurprisingly a must see destination. From the wide, bustling streets lined with majestic buildings to the calming, green parks, […]
Drinking on the street has been banned in popular holiday resorts in Mallorca and Ibiza, as authorities in Spain’s Balearic Islands continue to grapple with antisocial […]