: About Me

My name is Nicholas Craig Nutter, the surname is genuine by the way, there are quite a few Nutters in Lancashire. I was born in December 1952 in Burnley, a cotton mill and mining town in Lancashire, England. I can actually remember the days when the mills were operating, standing on a hill overlooking Burnley counting over fifty tall chimneys throwing coal smoke into the air. My schooling took place in Burnley and, after A' levels at Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth.

A short service commission in the Fleet Air Arm was followed by over twenty years in Lancashire Constabulary, the bulk of that service being on what were then called detached beats, village postings. I became interested in computers and their capabilities, working for a time on the development of crime recording systems and then databases generally and started my own business in the mid 90's fortuitously just as the Internet was also developing. I moved to Spain in 2000 with my partner, Julie and established a business centre in a small town called Puerto de la Duquesa on the Costa del Sol. That led to the founding of a magazine, Andalucia Life, that we jointly now own. The magazine gives us the opportunity to travel and I find it therapeutic to write about those adventures.

My interests are wide and varied, ranging from geography and geology to history and science. In my younger days I was a keen caver, diver, sailor, canoeist and fell walker. Age sadly catches up with us all but I still enjoy travelling and walking and, increasingly, the accumulation of knowledge, particularly concerning ancient civilisations and natural history.

My passion is ...

Visiting places I have never been before.

I know too much about ...

You can never know too much about anything (my opinion). Julie's is that I know far too much about everything.

My parents always told me ...

Eating toast would make my hair curl. I have eaten a lot of toast and my hair, what there is of it these days, is as straight as a die.

My childhood ambition ...

To climb Everest.

My favorite memory ...

Too many to pick just one.

Why I write ...

I find it therapeutic and believe that all knowledge should be shared.

Travel > Spain Destinations A visitor's guide to San Fernando, Andalucia, Spain

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Eight kilometres south of Cadiz along a narrow causeway linking the island of Cadiz with mainland Spain is San Fernando. When travelling to Cadiz by road or rail you have to pass through this equally historic but not anywhere near as well promoted town. San Fernando sits on an island locally known as the Isla de Leon and from that island, until recent years, there was only one narrow bridge, the Zuazo dating back to Roman times, linking the island to the mainland. San Fernando then has always been in a strategic position, guarding the only land approach to Cadiz. Between February 1810 and ...

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