EVEN people from within the continent are fascinated with Europe. Every year, millions of Britons fly away from their homes in the island to go directly to the Iberian Peninsula and go to Portugal and Spain. Only the English Channel separates the two bodies of land. Both Portugal and Spain have distinctive tourism favorites. In Portugal, there are lots of holiday resorts such as the ones found in Praia da Luz. There are also lots of holiday homes there up for lease and owners of these homes are usually British expatriates who make a living by being in the real estate business. That’s also true in Spain. Spain has lots of holiday resorts along its Mediterranean coastline. These include such famous tourist static clings as Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante. The Mediterranean coastline is where people all over Europe and even from other continents meet during summer. They love to frolic in the beaches there and enjoy the warm temperature of 18 to 23 degrees Celsius. This is the only place in Europe where you can find such warm climate. Besides, the Mediterranean offers vast produce of redfish, grouper and other fish which can be easily converted into seafood hours or even minutes away from being caught. You see, Spanish people love to devour their seafood fresh. They hate to eat them frozen and refrigerated. So it is not a surprise to find long queues in fishing villages and ports across the Mediterranean coastline of people lining up and waiting for their fishermen to haul off their catch of the day. Some classy restaurants in Spain even contract vans and huge fishing trucks to cart off all or most of the fish harvested from the sea at that exact moment. These fish head straight to the kitchens of these restaurants where they are cooked with olive oil, said to be the healthiest cooking oil in the world because of their less fat content.

And olive oil in Spain is fermented and cultivated in Palma del Mallorca. Palma del Mallorca is another outstanding tourist attraction in Spain during summer. It is not located at the Iberian Peninsula though; it is located off the European mainland. Students from as far as Paris troop there during summer. What the tourists do not instantaneously notice is the growing number of olive plantations there. In the business side of Palma del Mallorca, olive is being in demand there. Olive from Mallorca is exported to such countries as Italy.

Palma del Mallorca belongs to a group of islands called the Balearic archipelago. The most famous island in the Balearic is Ibiza. Ibiza has been the subject of many movies and songs because of its adoration to techno and house music. Ibiza is the more modest version of Cap d’Agde.
Cap d’Agde is the largest nudist community in France. What’s nice about Cap d’Agde is that the entire campus is domed and nudists will definitely have the time of their lives without worrying of any voyeur from above.

These are some of the fascinations of Europe. Of course, they cannot fit this article.