{"id":1695,"date":"2016-05-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/food-wine-tour-in-northern-spain-day-11\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:25:55","slug":"food-wine-tour-in-northern-spain-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Food &#038; Wine Tour in Northern Spain Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well Sunday (22 May) started out with lots of rain. It was a good thing that we had planned to visit the Guggenheim museum, which I am sure sure most of you know was designed by Frank Gehry. I really enjoyed the Louise Bourgeois exhibition and the Paris School 1900 &#8211; 1945 with paintings by Picasso, Braque, Duchamp, Chagall, Modigliani and many others.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0789-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0789-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSC_0789-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0In the Basque country there are lots of gastronomic clubs called &#8220;txokos&#8221;, where the members, who are all male, meet to socialise and of course cook. Up until recently women were only allowed to enter them on 6 January, the day of Epiphany. Now this has been relaxed, but only men are allowed to cook. We were invited by some friends of mine to their &#8220;txoko&#8221; in Bilbao where we went armed with 3 bottles of wine that we had picked up on our winery visits. We had a superb lunch which included wild mushrooms with scrambled eggs, clams, cod cheeks with piquillo peppers and a wonderful lamb stew with hard-boiled eggs, asparagus, artichokes, etc. It was a great experience for my clients\/friends and is something that is a rare treat for visitors.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4379-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4379-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_4379-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1870 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6302-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6302-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6302-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1871 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6307-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6307-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DSCN6307-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FullSizeRender-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food and Wine Tours Spain <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-u6zKnkzscag\/V0SgABGpjuI\/AAAAAAAABWA\/vQsYbbuybgomBYhH5uCDWKea_8s9yh1vQCLcB\/s1600\/DSCN6302.JPG\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-u6zKnkzscag\/V0SgABGpjuI\/AAAAAAAABWA\/vQsYbbuybgomBYhH5uCDWKea_8s9yh1vQCLcB\/s1600\/DSCN6302.JPG\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Sunday (22 May) started out with lots of rain. It was a good thing that we had planned to visit the Guggenheim museum, which I am sure sure most of you know was designed by Frank Gehry. I really enjoyed the Louise Bourgeois exhibition and the Paris School 1900 &#8211; 1945 with paintings by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}