Snow near Ronda

Snow near Ronda

Last week I did two wine tours to the Ronda area which coincided with a pretty cold spell. The photo below which was taken from the centre of Ronda shows the  Sierra de las Nieves with a smattering of snow near the summit.   wine tours to...
Cooking class Seville

Cooking class Seville

Last week I realised that I didn’t have a blog entry about the cooking classes we offer. So, as we had a class last Saturday (24th November) I thought I would put amends to this situation. I have been working with local chef Willy Moya for around 9 years and the...
Iberico ham tour (II)

Iberico ham tour (II)

Yesterday (22 November),  I took some people on my Iberian or iberico ham tour. The months of October and November are when the free-range Iberian pigs start eating acorns which they root around for among the holm oaks and cork oaks. The idea is that the pigs gain 50...
Tapas tour Seville

Tapas tour Seville

Over the last ten years I must have done hundreds of tapas tours in Seville and have posted very little about them on this blog. Seville has an incredible amount of tapas bars, probably more per capita than anywhere else in Spain. The whole culture of tapas comes from...
Making olive oil

Making olive oil

I received a text message yesterday morning from the olive mill that is near to Seville saying that they would be making olive oil that afternoon after a hiatus of 9 days. On arriving at the mill just before 5 p.m., they were just finishing picking olives. The photo...