Southern Spain recommendations

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We have the opportunity to remotely work for May.

Loved San Sebastian last year (Stayed 15min walk from the beach, but was still quite), so would like to go south in Spain this time.

Things we like: Food is our big thing. Followed by wine, a good view, long walk in pretty nature.

Avoid: Homebase without Wifi or fairly loud or super touristy. Restaurants that don’t dairy free.

Questions:

  • Transport - Coming from NYC or DC and want to go direct - Madrid best?
  • Home base - Not sure! Could stay in one place and do trips out or split the time (don’t want to do more than 1 major move).
  • Beach or Mountain town? Leaning beach? Love the mountains, but don’t want home base to require a hike every time we leave home. Seems like water will be warm enough?
  • Best way to get from Madrid to X? Do we do it in one shot or take a couple days in Madrid or is there somewhere on the way down to spend a day or x?
  • Not sure next time we’ll be back this ways, worth working the Canaries in or is that too much hassle?
    Tagging @Nola_Palomar and @Ethan_A since I saw y’all had posted pretty recently

Have read through these and found them helpful, but curious for other/more current thoughts: