Golf
The golf course Costa Ballena (Whale Coast) is 5 minutes away from Chipiona by car. It is a flat course with a competitive professional level but also suitable for beginners and players of all levels. Some holes are near the sea and others are strategically situated near lakes and bunkers.
Clubs can be hired at the golf course.
For further information, check the golf course website: www.ballenagolf.com
Sports
Windsurf, Kite-surf.
Regla Beach is a good spot to practice water sports. They can either be practised with west wind or south wind .The best months for the local kite-surfers to “low fly” the water are September, October, May and June. If you like doing any of these sports or want to learn, do not hesitate to ask for information, we will be pleased to help.
Bicycle hire.
You can hire your bike at the guesthouse.
Guided routes.
Horse rides.
Cuisine
Local Cuisine
A large variety of fish, seafood, vegetables and fruit, making this part of Andalucía extremely rich in terms of its gastronomy. Fish and seafood such as, gilt-headed sea bream, baby plaice, cuttlefish,, sea urchins, sea anemonies, dog fish, sea bass, clams, white prawns, king prawns, shrimps, sea snails…
In general, all the vegetables are worth mentioning, fruit such as watermelon, melon, strawberry and the local variety of grape, “uva moscatel”, from which muscatel wine is made, are grown for export to Europe and beyond.
Moscatel
It is five hundred years ago when the moscatel first appeared. The type of soil which produces this wine is clay or sand, from which we obtain a drink fit for the gods. Our moscatel has become a tasty companion for many of our festivals, mainly for its own, held in August called “Festival del Moscatel”
Culture
Guided tours to the fishing corrals, the lighthouse, Rocio Jurado tourist route.
Health and tourism
Spiritual and body treatments: shiatsu, reiki, minerals, magnetism
The session that Manuela proposes should take 1 hour 15 minutes to relieve pains and tension at mental and physical level.
The massage-treatments are done at Hostal Tranvía (one of the Hostalpionis guesthouses)
Manuela Gonon is 43 years old and comes from France.
She can speak Spanish and English and has an advanced level in Japanese and Portuguese.
At the age of 31, after cancer being detected in one of her eyes, she started to learn and practise shiatsu.
Four years later, after 12 years working in the media world (television, journalism, events organization, international relations) and lots of travelling around the world, Manuela decided to dedicate herself professionally to the study and practise of shiatsu.
The following year, she left Paris and went to live in a small town Andalucía, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea: Chipiona.
Later on she realized that she had a special gift on her hands that works as follows: “her hands get warm only on the exact place where the patient has a pain or an anxiety knot”
In general this technique relieves the pain and also allows the practitioner to find painful places in the body and sort out any problem. Willing to control this magnetism gift to the full, Manuela tries to use it everyday and do her best with it. That’s why she uses reiki for her job as a therapist.
She also works with stones and crystals which she considers to be ” great tools and mates”
“I recommend a minimum stay of 10 days to “charge batteries”, improve your health and achieve a more balanced life” the right time to alternate treatments, sunbathing all year round, swimming ( from April to October) and make the most of iodine from the sea and air, by walking along the shore or in countryside”
