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Madrid: a city as nocturnal as I am
Blog: mock-heroic.net - 13 July 2009
Madrid 8th – 11th July, 2009
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Barcelona Zoo - join us at Parc de la Ciutadella
Blog: Barcelona Travel and Living - 3 July 2009
Barcelona Zoo is in a great location (located in Parc de la Ciutadella and near to the old city center and near the beach. It is a beautiful zoo, where animals live in spacious pens.
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Quimet and Quimet – Barcelona’s Best Tapas
Blog: GoBackpacking - 30 June 2009
So I’m lounging on my couch after two late nights of partying in Medellin, waiting to be picked up by some new friends to spend the night at a finca (country house) for the first time, when Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations comes on the TV. It’s an episode on Spain, and the second segment is [...] Related posts:Walking Barcelona By Day And Night
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Top tips for a great holiday in Puerto Pollensa - Majorca
Blog: Heather on her travels - 20 June 2009
My guest post today takes you behind the package holiday image of the beautiful island of Majorca and the northern coastal town of Puerto Pollensa. Ross Fraser has visited the holiday town of Puerto Pollensa many times over the last 15 years and runs the popular holiday website puertopollensa.org.uk. Majorca (or Mallorca in Spanish) can often [...]
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Studebaker of Bedford Ave
Blog: Scouting NY - 15 June 2009
I was driving down Bedford Ave around the Crown Heights area in Brooklyn when I passed this great neo-Gothic building at Sterling Place…and noticed something that made me stop and get out to take pictures. Right at the top center of the curve is this emblem: Crazy, right? Apparently, this was once an auto showroom for Studebaker [...]
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Show me the way to go home…
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF8 Indonesia Watch as Jemy, the Kiva Coordinator at my host MFI, Dinari Foundation Bali, takes me on a nail-biting, jaw-dropping white knuckled ride home. This video is just one minute long, but the actual journey took half an hour. *** Zev Lowe started work at DINARI Foundation today. He recently completed his MBA at [...]
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Is a Kiva loan really interest free?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF 8 Indonesia The US dollar has recently risen significantly against many currencies. When I arrived in Bali to begin my Kiva Fellowship with DINARI Foundation, I received 10,295 Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) for each of my US dollars. This is 10% higher than a year ago, when the US dollar was worth 9,350 [...]
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We´re Spoiled, and One for RyMac
Blog: where the wild things are - 31 May 2009
Today we made lunch, (biggest meal of á typical Spanish day.. six courses ohman,) for Carlos´s parents and 3 of his friends.. and us of course. There were 9 people, so you can imagine Louie, Carlos, Victoria and I have been up since 9am cooking. It was alot of fun though. Sorry to keep it short but pictures are better, and I´m in a rush because Carlos and Louie are going to eat my dinner, lol.- Anyway, here are some photos of the country side, the mountains and Carlos´s house there. oh ps..
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day 4, Madrid
Blog: where the wild things are - 30 May 2009
Carlos took us to Retiro Park yesterday to check out the cool statues, but first we went for Tapas. Last night, his friends came over and we had dinner together. We´re so lucky that everyone speaks such fluent English! If you´re from del´s I´m sure you´ll recognize the primavera alio olio.. i was jonesen.. Also, (and forgive me for not having any photos,) two nights ago after the gym, we went to a bar called Casa Pepe which is where they serve Spanish beer in 1.60 €, 5oz glasses, and FREE chicken wings! As you can imagine, the place was packed. Sure..
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Review of the Madrid Confessions - from Ben Curtis at Notes from Spain
Blog: Heather on her travels - 27 May 2009
Read on for my review of the new audio book, Madrid Confessions, from Ben Curtis of notesfromsspain.com. I’ve been enjoying Ben and Marina’s podcasts on Spanish life for a while now, following them into local markets, the green delights of Asturias, the bars of Madrid and the fiestas of Jerez and Valencia. I even got to see [...]
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Cafe Viena, Barcelona (sometimes tourists are right)
Blog: An American in London - 14 May 2009
When Jon and I arrived in Barcelona, we arrived hungry. Because it still was too early in the day for a real meal, when we read this April 2009 New York Times description of Cafe Viena as serving “a perfect snack,” we thought we’d give the place a try. So we asked our B&B owner [...]
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Bar Mut, Barcelona
Blog: An American in London - 11 May 2009
Although I’ve always read that Barcelona is no tapas town (this article, for example, explains how Catalunyans historically preferred a full sit-down meal), Jon and I couldn’t resist the siren call of small plates in Spain. On the high end of the tapas spectrum was Bar Mut, which is a short walk from Diagonal metro in [...]
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Gresca restaurant, Barcelona
Blog: An American in London - 8 May 2009
Jon and I really enjoyed most of our meals in Barcelona, but the stand-out for us was dinner at Gresca. This July 2008 NYT article on “bistronomia” described the restaurant thus: “Gresca practices bistronomia, which means it’s one of a growing number of Barcelona restaurants dedicated to offering high quality, contemporary — and yes, occasionally [...]
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Back from (Eating in) Barcelona
Blog: An American in London - 5 May 2009
The first time I visited Barcelona was in November 2005, and back then, I made the mistake of not making any dinner reservations in advance, which meant that by the time I rang up highly-sought-after Barcelona restaurants, I was too late. So instead of swanking it up at the likes of Comerc 24, I [...]
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Siblings on a Quest for Good Food
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 14 April 2009
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In Love With Oysters
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 14 April 2009
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A Divine Tapa Experience
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 14 April 2009
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Bacon Wrapped Shrimp
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
The fried curve of the shrimp tail juxtaposed with the fatty slab of bacon is a thing of beauty.
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Grilled Cod With Pear Foam and Roasted Leaks
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
This was simple, rich with oil and creamy.
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Creativity At Its Best
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
This creation was called the toboggan, and Alice, Ian, Andrew and I all agreed that it provided the most complex and complimentary flavors of the tapas we had eaten at Aloña Berri.
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Sliced Potato With Foie Gras
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
This was my first encounter with Foie Gras which is made out of the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened. I think it is typically American to imagine anything outside of hamburger or chicken meat as scary or unappetizing. Because we never see our meat except for in plastic wrap, we have a hard time when we actually encounter the real animal or are forced to imagine where our food has come from.
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Stuffed Squid with a Shot of Seafood Broth
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
This Aloña Berri creation involves four steps: First you eat the crystallized sugar wafer riddled with holes, then you bite into the square of rice drizzled with squid ink.
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An Oyster in Spinach Reduction Sauce
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
This is another creation of Aloña Berri. Ian, Alice and I enjoyed this oyster so much that we had two rounds of it.
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Sea Urchin with Caviar
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 25 March 2009
After stopping by the Bar Garbola, we headed straight for Aloña Berri, a tapas bar that had recently been featured in both the New York Times and Time Magazine.
