Heartbeat: A journey through the fiestas of Spain

Simon Prichard fell in love with Spain when he was 17, only to spurn it in favour of a career, a serious relationship and a precarious foothold on the London property ladder. Twenty years later, when he lost his job, left his wife and started living in his car, he decided to try and patch things up with his old flame.

He cashed his redundancy cheque and bought a one-way ticket in search of a better way of living. He followed the fiesta trail, which seemed to epitomise the Spanish appetite fo...