About Galicia Guide
Galicia Guide is an on-going and constantly updated guide to the region of Galicia in Northern Spain. It takes the form of a large number of mini guides describing the locations that we think a tourist, or potential property purchaser, might be interested in visiting.
All the views and opinions included are based on the first hand experience of visits to the various towns and cities of Galicia, either by ourselves or our readers and we try to give the guide a personal rather than disassociated feel.
Please see this page for our Privacy policy.
How the site came about
GaliciaGuide.com was started in March 2005 and was at that time primarily a guide to the town of Noia. The site had a very different look, but although visitor numbers were small, many people emailed us and most asked if we could include further information about the other towns and cities in the region. We duly obliged and the site expanded to cover the provinces, towns, cities and villages that now number over 70 individual mini guides.
In May 2006 we started to include limited commercial content, mainly as a result of visitors requesting information about hotels, flights and car rental. We now offer some of these services through Galicia Guide.
How GaliciaGuide.com is put together
The site has been designed and implemented using xhtml, CSS1 and CSS2 with a number of off-page style sheets and browser detection to try and give our visitors the best possible rendering of our pages. There is no javascript (bar a stats counter) anywhere on the site and all the pages are hand-coded. All our style sheets use relative rather than absolute sizing and this is why, on browsers of 17 inches or more, there is free space at the foot of the page. If you view GaliciaGuide.com on a browser of less than 15 inches, some of the buttons will appear disproportional. All our pages should load very quickly. We are W3C compliant.
Contacting us
In the days when the site had a very basic and informal look, and only received a dozen hits per day, we would get constant emails from our visitors. Now, with a more professional (and possibly more intimidating appearance) and with up to 1000 hits per day, most of our correspondence is commercial or spam. If you do visit us and have any comments, please get in touch. One of the drawbacks of the site's success is the dramatic reduction in correspondence from our visitors and that is something we miss.
If you have visited Galicia and would like to add your view or opinion for the benefit of future visitors, please contact us with your thoughts, report or mini guide. We will be happy to add it to the site. Also, please do not be deterred if your opinion is a negative one. As you will see from our guides to Ferrol and Finisterre, we are not always complementary about the places we visit.
We would like to thank Colin Davies, see www.colindavies.net for his help, friendship and great hospitality, both over the internet and during our visits to
Pontevedra in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Colin's humorous blog, outlining the differences between life in Galicia and the UK, colindavies.blogspot.com is a good daily read and I would recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour and appreciation of a sharp wit. Read it once and you will definately be back for more.
Also on our list of people to thank is regular contributor, Laurie Lambert, with his photos, feedback and encouragement.
We would also thank the many people who have emailed us, especially those who have given us feedback, content, or have become long term internet friends as a result of their correspondence with Galicia Guide.
We were also fortunate, in the early days of GaliciaGuide.com, to get vital backlinks from some important portals about Spain, including the excellent spanish-living.com who published a couple of articles we wrote for them. We are also grateful to the BBC History magazine for mentioning us in their March 2006 article about Galicia and Google.com, msn (live) .com and Yahoo.com for giving us such good serps over recent months.
