Alternative shopping At this time of year with Christmas just around the corner Seville city centre is crowded with shoppers looking for the best presents they can find. But how can we make our loved ones happy while still supporting local businesses? Actually, there are plenty of options and we've come up with this little [...]
Jerez de la Frontera is a short train ride away from Seville and is, of course, most famous for its local wine - sherry. While you are there you should not only visit one of the city's many bodegas, but also do at least part of the "Ruta de Tabancos". Tabancos are a type of [...]
amanitas cesáreas Autumn is here, even in Spain, and among the things this season brings with it are wild mushrooms. Country people have always gathered mushrooms for the pot at this time of year, but in Spain in recent decades harvesting mushrooms has become a popular weekend pastime, taking advantage of the temperate weather to [...]
As an observant visitor to our fair city of Seville, you may have noticed, on such diverse objects as lampposts, manhole covers, buildings and garbage trucks, among others, a little motif that seems to read NO8DO, except that the 8 is somewhat large, and often appears as if a little blurred. You may guess from [...]
Although there may be other “sherry style” wines, true sherries are those wines, and only those wines, produced in the area around Jerez de la Frontera in southwest Spain, or more specifically, those wines aged in the towns of Jerez, Puerto de Santa Maria, and Sanlúcar de Barrameda under the rules of the Consejo Regulador [...]
It's often been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and there's no doubt that a good brekky (desayuno in Spanish) will set you up for a hard day's sightseeing/lazing on the beach/shopping, or even, heaven forbid, w**king. In Spain, where the main meal of the day is lunch, rather than [...]
Updated: July 1, 2016 You may notice, or may have already noticed, as you make your way from bar to bar in search of tapas and a drink, that the word abacería (often antigua abacería) appears in some of the names in a way that suggests a particular meaning. But what meaning? On closer inspection [...]
Light, cool and refreshing in the hot summer weather, gazpacho, the cold tomato soup of southern Spain, is nowadays well-known all over the world. It's one of a family of tomato based cold soups that includes salmorejo and porra, as well as other local varieties, but the origins of these dishes actually goes back to before [...]
The Feria de Abril is Seville’s traditional spring fair and general celebration, and starts two weeks after Easter Monday (this year April 21 to 26), officially at midnight on Monday with the alumbrao, the switching on of the fairground lights, although in practice people may go to the fairground as early as the Saturday. Monday [...]
We love cooking! And so we'll be sharing some of our favourite recipes for our favourite Spanish dishes here from time to time. As it is almost spring we thought we'd start with a spring-veggie twist on a Spanish classic - the tortilla de patatas. The important thing to know about making a great tortilla [...]
We love Andalucia! And to start off our series of "postcards" from our travels around the most southern region of Spain - where we live! - we'd like to introduce you to one of our favourite places, Antequera. Andalucía is justly famous for its great classical and mediaeval cities – Seville, Málaga, Cádiz, Córdoba and [...]
What better way to start our new blog than to tell you something about what we love? We’re talking tapas, of course – those nifty little snacks that you buy to go along with your drink, and which can rapidly add up to a complete meal. But what exactly is a tapa? What’s so special [...]
Welcome to We Love Tapas! Discover Andalucia and its fabulous food culture by taking one of our fun & informative tapas tours. Launching January 2015 – watch this space!