{"id":105,"date":"2008-04-22T11:17:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T09:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/the-biggest-twitch-visits-spain\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T09:17:39","slug":"the-biggest-twitch-visits-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/the-biggest-twitch-visits-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Twitch visits Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent northeast Spain birding trip with a Swiss group we stayed at the <strong>Rinc\u00f3n del Cierzo<\/strong>, L\u00e9cera (only 20 minutes from the <strong>Dupont&#8217;s Larks<\/strong>). The location is ideal, the hotel was good, clean and the food just right. And the service was friendly &#8211; with real smiles.<\/p>\n<p>Just before we left Olga, the proprietor, handed me a card which she had been given the week before by a couple of <strong>British birders<\/strong>. On it I read &#8220;<strong>The Biggest Twitch<\/strong>&#8221; and the names Alan Davies and Ruth Miller. When I got home I checked them out. See their story for yourselves at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebiggesttwitch.com\" title=\"The Biggest Twitch\">www.thebiggesttwitch.com<\/a>\u00a0 (I wonder if they have problems with that double &#8220;t&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>It would have been nice to bump into them, but alas it could not be. Apparently they lucked upon the hotel. There&#8217;s no reason for you to do the same, as the BirdingInSpain.com website has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/sites-and-itineraries\/belchite-steppes\/birding-in-belchite-steppes.html\" title=\"Birding in the Belchite steppes\">direct link to the hotel&#8217;s website<\/a> where you can see the details for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s there, use it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my recent northeast Spain birding trip with a Swiss group we stayed at the Rinc\u00f3n del Cierzo, L\u00e9cera (only 20 minutes from the Dupont&#8217;s Larks). The location is ideal, the hotel was good, clean and the food just right. And the service was friendly &#8211; with real smiles. Just before we left Olga, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-and-wildlife-trips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-1H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}