Camping Giralda

The beaut seaside resort of Isla Cristina is popular with Spanish natives for its long and lovely kilometres of sandy beach and its setting among protected pine forests and marshes, by the Carreras river mouth. It's also a highly regarded fishing port, so try the spoils of this for yourself at the busy fish market or one of the many seafood restaurants by the harbour. Many other options are around whether you want to drive a bit or a bit further: you could get to the Guadiana river about 15 kilometres from Camping Giralda to sail gently down it by boat, or wander around local villages like Almonte and Doñana. The towns and villages of the Columbus Route, detailing Christopher Columbus's preparation for his first voyage to the Americas, are about 70 kilometres away. Going a bit further, the flamenco and the fino wine of Seville, Jerez and Cadiz are a couple of hours' drive away and other comely coastal towns like Isla Canela, La Antilla, Punta Umbria or Matalascañas are within a hundred-kilometre radius. And sticking closer to home, Portugal and its border are only 15 kilometres from base.