At over 2,000 euros (almost $3,000) the kilo (2.2 lbs), you’d think everyone would be investing in the farming of saffron. However, harvesting this precious spice is back-breaking work. Not to mention, just consider how many of the feather-light stigmas you actually have to collect in your basket to reach a kilogram of weight, and […]
This rocky region of the north east of Spain is little known by tourists and Spanish locals alike. A recent ad campaign based its success on the claim that the town they publicized was somewhere where nothing ever happens, and where there is no one. The publicists used the 12 inhabitants of the hamlet as […]
The first windsurfer to come to Tarifa arrived in the late 1970s. He parked his camper at the campsite Torre de la Peña, set up his board and began to sail. His identity remains anonymous, but what lies behind the simple anecdote is that after this first visitor came more than 30 schools of wind […]
One of the basic problems we come across when we travel to a new city, aside from finding out where to eat that is not fast food or food that might foul up your intestines, is locating what makes each city so unique. There are the obvious monuments, and the classic museums; there are splendid […]
One journalist wrote about this store that inside it smells like summer all year long. For a Spaniard, this would most certainly be the case. Many Spaniards still associate summer with the purchase of a clean pair of espadrilles to wear everywhere throughout the hot months, especially down to the beach. But now, with more […]
I can’t believe I’ve lived in Madrid so long and never eaten here! It had to be another longtime resident, whose husband is an artist, and who belongs to an artistic community, who brought me to this gem of a restaurant. Tucked away on one of the Salamanca neighborhood’s elegant streets, La Corralada is out […]
Madrid yawns awake on Monday May 5 from a long weekend…four long days of holidaying. First there was May Day or, what the Europeans see as the Socialist holiday, the day to honor the world’s workers. Then, in Madrid, there is May 2, and a bicentennial at that. On May 2nd, 1808, the madrileños rose […]
That’s right, that’s the title of a new book by Lori Tharps, an African American woman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who studied and lived in Spain and married into a Spanish family. The book tells of her voyage of discovery of the meaning of culture and race in the Western world; how others perceive you depending […]
An industrial city, Gijón may sometimes be overlooked as a tourist destination, particularly for foreigners looking for sun and excitement on any of Spain’s other “costas”, or coastal areas. Yet this town and its surroundings have much to offer for the curious visitor, in terms of history, art, country walks, beaches, and delicious local foods.
Gijón […]
Easter week this year, 2008, is next week. In Spain, the vast majority of the population will head for the hills…or, rather, the beaches, to enjoy the first warm rays of sun.
Much of the ritual and symbolism of the week has been lost. The days of Spain as a strictly and majority Catholic country, […]
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