Para la versión en castellano pincha aquí Hello friends and Califa lovers. We have been off air for a while with the Califa News while we were enjoying some relaxing winter down time. We trust you are all happy and well and looking forward to the year ahead as much as we are. We have […]
This weekend our hotel in Caños de Meca opens. Glorious sunshine on the beach and Mercedes the manager tells me clients have taken their first dip in the pool! This year we have a great offer of 3 x 2 including weekends (except June to September). Click here for more info. Este fin de semana […]
This weekend saw Vejer’s traditional Semana Santa processions and it’s famous bull running festival stumbling over each other. The full moon shone down on the Easter processions and waned only a touch for the traditional pre-Toro all night party. Here are a few pics of a magical few days… Este fin de semana vimos la […]
“Making a living from painting as a woman in Algeciras is very tough. They ought to raise a monument to us!” laughs Blanca Orozco Sambucety. It’s all the tougher if, like her, you refuse to rehash the saleable so you can press on with your “search for authenticity”. When we caught up with her in Los […]
Programación de música en el Jardín del Califa, Marzo Jueves 5 marzo: Jooko Horia (instrumentos diversos) Jueves 12 marzo: Salvador Molina (violín clásico) Jueves 19 marzo: Jooko Horia (Tzigan, Manouch – música del medio oriente) Jueves 26 marzo: Jooko Horia (guitarra flamenco) A partir de las 8 de la tarde. Recomendamos reservar mesa: Tel 956 […]
This winter & spring come and stay at the Califa, Triperia No.1 or Madreselva at specially reduced rates. Everyone is looking to save a penny or two so we have come up with some great deals. At the Califa and Triperia No.1 all mid-week stays are now available on a 2 for 1 basis. Stay […]
Have a look at our prices for this year. We’ve taken into account the ‘crisis’ factor and are giving our clients some great deals for 2009. At Triperia No.1 prices are the same as 2008 and we’ve added breakfast into the price too! For the Califa and Madreselva we have raised the prices just a tiny […]
Wishing all our clients, friends, suppliers and staff a very happy Christmas and (hopefully) a prosperous New Year. Deseamos para todos nuestros clientes, amigos, proveedroes y personal unas fiestas felices y un prospero (esperamos) año nuevo!
This autumn winter we are opening every day including 24th., 25th. December and New Years’s Eve (dinner only) and New Year’s day! Nobody offers more… The café at the Califa is open every day from 11:00 and lunch is served from 13:00 – 16:00 and dinner is from 19:30 to 23:00. We have now installed […]
Just a couple of hours travelling from Vejer takes my brother Duncan and I deep into the limestone caverns of the ‘Garganta de las Buitreras’ on the edge of the Grazalema Nature Reserve. This is rural Andalucia at its best – rarely visited and difficult to find but just a thirty minute train journey from the coast. The adventure starts with a […]
The Califa’s new rooms have been open now for a few weeks. Here are the first pics by Simon Brown. ‘Africa’ is our no.1 suite – 65m2. with king size bed and views across town to the coast. ‘Torre’ is double fronted with views across the Plaza and over town & country – a full […]
Friday evening we held the official opening party for the Hotel Madreselva. Big thanks to Khadi & Amina for the fabulous canapés, to Mercedes the boss at MS & Regli for organising it all and to the band with no name headed up by Mike El viernes celebramos la fiesta de apertura del Hotel […]
Our new hotel in Los Caños de Meca opened for business on schedule on Wednesday. Completely refurbished the hotel has been replastered and wired, we have added air conditioning and hairdryers to rooms and the hotel has been completely redecorated. And all in just 6 weeks! A big thanks to a great team who put the project together […]
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