{"id":1756,"date":"2013-05-21T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/a-great-few-days-with-old-clients\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:58:57","slug":"a-great-few-days-with-old-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"A great few days with old clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDue to being very busy I haven&#8217;t posted anything since 10th May. Anyway, part of last week was spent with some clients who have been with me before. I spent 4 days with them doing a number of different tours. We did my half-day tour olive oil tour last Tuesday (14th May) and in the photo below you can now see the olives forming.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_YMzBLP3vJY\/UZsgKWZKRgI\/AAAAAAAAAuA\/ndTSRSMvtIw\/s1600\/CIMG2204.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CIMG2204.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nIn the second photo the group is about to start tasting olive oil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-IpcL7WBYcEg\/UZsg2i1mw_I\/AAAAAAAAAuI\/gtR4mF2sLrk\/s1600\/CIMG2206.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CIMG2206.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nOn the evening of the 14th we did a tapas tour but I didn&#8217;t take my camera along so no photos. The following day we visited two wineries in Jerez before going for lunch at a great seafood restaurant in Sanl\u00facar de Barrameda. In the photo below the group have just been tasting some brandy directly from the cask. This was after tasting a range of exceptional sherries.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-doPR7aBMn2s\/UZsirRV3UcI\/AAAAAAAAAuY\/U3QiimogKVs\/s1600\/CIMG2210.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/group-visiting-sherry-winery.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAfter our fabulous lunch we watched the &#8220;hermandades&#8221; or brotherhoods who were crossing or about to cross the estuary of the Guadalquivir river&nbsp; on their way to El Rocio, a town where the revered Virigin of El Rocio is taken out on procession on the morning of Pentecostal Monday. Up to 1 million people come to the town for this celebration!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6K1lxkUQTcU\/UZskRa8P8eI\/AAAAAAAAAuo\/Cou_fgZeJog\/s1600\/CIMG2213.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CIMG2213.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YRW9xEenkG8\/UZsl18nawjI\/AAAAAAAAAu4\/ChwITiurGuY\/s1600\/CIMG2217.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CIMG2217.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOn the 16th May we did a wine tour to the Ronda area stopping at some white towns on the way. I didn&#8217;t get round to taking any photos but we had a fantastic lunch at the winery.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe next day we went to the Sierra of Aracena and spent around 4 hours on an organic Iberian pig farm where, as well as spending two hours touring the farm, we had lunch. This was a great experience which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Apart from the wine everything we had for lunch was from the farm. In the second photo below I make a guest appearance!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-feKNww3Z9XI\/UZsqN07ikbI\/AAAAAAAAAvI\/C-bIXH-LeYM\/s1600\/CIMG2223.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iberian-ham-tour.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HKn0RFkR8-U\/UZsrMgrNWXI\/AAAAAAAAAvY\/ZE0L5bvWb-c\/s1600\/CIMG2231.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CIMG2231.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nPatrick, one of the members of the group, has left some comments about the tours on Tripadvisor which you can link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.es\/ShowUserReviews-g187443-d2472184-r161164203-A_Question_of_Taste_Day_Tours-Seville_Province_of_Seville_Andalucia.html#REVIEWS\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food and wine tours Seville<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to being very busy I haven&#8217;t posted anything since 10th May. Anyway, part of last week was spent with some clients who have been with me before. I spent 4 days with them doing a number of different tours. 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