There’s something about smoke. Most of our honeymoon was cold and wet. The kind of weather that makes you want to curl up by a fire with a galleon sized flagon of red wine. Through our journey we were constantly being drawn to places with flickering flames and a lick of smoke trickling out the […]
Eating out – San Sebastian
I’ve read and heard lots of things about Mugaritz. Last year Restaurant magazine put it forward as the seventh best restaurant in the world. I’d heard it’s bit like El Bulli for those who can’t get a booking (raise your hands now…).I’d read that Chef Andoni Luis Aduriz is so driven he went and studied […]
For shear novelty value, it’s hard to beat the pintxos. Pintxos (said pinchos) are the Basque style tapas that’s everywhere in San Sebastian. As a style of eating it’s somewhere between a buffet and a canapé party. At most times of the day in any bar you walk into there will be platters of food […]
We’ve been in Spain for two days now and I’m still accidentally busting out with “Bonjour”. It’s hard to know exactly what to speak here in San Sebastian. Spanish seems to be ok, but we lost our mini phrase book after our first boozy lunch. Politically better is Basque but it has the added benefit […]