Spain Travel Blog

Murcia's Cathedral

Known as The Orchard of Europe for it’s gorgeous year-round climate, the Spanish region of Murcia manages to combine all of our favourite things about holidaying in Spain – luscious golden beaches, local cuisine to die for, cultural and high-octane attractions – whilst drawing noticeably fewer tourists than nearby Valencia and Andalucia. Flights to Murcia are growing in popularity you can be sure that this relatively unknown spot of Mediterranean paradise won’t stay this quiet for long.

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The autonomous community of Galicia, located in the north-western-most part of Spain offers a wide range of dishes that usually contain seafood, combining many ingredients to get the best from these fresh products from the sea, such as shellfish, empanadas, polbo á feira, which contains octopus, the cheese queixo de tetilla, the ribeiro and albariño wines and the orujo liquor, a very popular beverage in this community and one of the most exported to the rest of the country as well as the wine. (more…)

Ferrán Adria

All those euroresidents who have stopped by El Bulli restaurant remain impressed by the greatest cook in the world who works there. He’s not only considered to be the number one in the Spanish cuisine but his prestige has spread up to such a point in which he is considered to be, according to the world press, the Spanish genius that lends an added grandeur to the international cuisine.

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Cod with pil pil sauce

We had previously reported on recipes concerning the Andalusian and Catalan cuisine or the one from the east, today it’s the northern cuisine’s turn, the crème de la crème of the Spanish cuisine.

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As in many cultures, the Catalonian cuisine has a great character: its innovative cooking which often looks back to history and traditions for inspiration.

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