For most English speaking people at least the eating of snails is associated with the French and their escargots, but in fact snails are eaten all around the Mediterranean, and Spain, where they are known as caracoles (the small ones) and cabrillas (the big ones), is no exception. Snail season, which runs through mid-April to [...]
Ronda is one of our favourite small towns (population 35,000) in Andalucia, and is already a popular tourist destination. It's situated in the mountains west of Malaga , between the Sierra de Grazalema and the Sierra de la Nieves, and is considered to be one of the "White Villages" of Andalucia. It can be reached [...]
As anyone who has been to Spain will already know, when it comes to food the pig holds a special place of affection in the hearts of the Spanish (if you can excuse a rather mixed metaphor). No one knows exactly how long this love affair has been going on, but it's thought that domesticated [...]
Typical Triana courtyard Triana is the neighbourhood of Seville across the river from the old walled city, and is regarded by many Trianeros as a completely separate entity, historically, the home of Gypsies, sailors and other groups from the metaphorical wrong side of the tracks, and it retains something of that atmosphere today, with strong [...]
Update: This year's Noches en Los Jardines de Los Reales Alcazares run from June 14th to September 8th, 2017 Despite the heat there are lots of good reasons to come to Seville in the summer time, and plenty of things to see and do when you've finished lounging by the pool or sitting in pavement [...]
In a country better known for its wine, and where many visitors arrive looking to join the locals in a glass of sangria (and for the moment, at least, I'm going to leave aside all the misconceptions involved in that one), the importance of beer may come as a surprise. I mean, it's just beer, [...]
This year's Bodegas Gonzales Byass tasting event for Tío Pepe en Rama 2016 was held on April 11th (lunes del pescaíto), at the Mercado del Barranco on Seville's riverside. Although we weren't too lucky with the weather, with the wind even knocking over a few glasses, master blender (and winemaker poet) Antonio Flores led us [...]
We Love Tapas had the opportunity for a visit to the recently opened Sea Market restaurant in the Avenida Eduardo Dato in Seville. We had been invited to attend a tasting of one of the most highly regarded, but possibly least known products of the sea - caviar. The tasting was hosted by Calvisius Caviar, [...]
Semana Santa (Holy Week) is Spain's major annual religious extravaganza, but nowhere is it celebrated on a scale, or with such fervour, as in Seville. From Palm Sunday (although because the processional timetable is so full some brotherhoods go out on the preceding Friday and Saturday) through to Resurrection Sunday the city virtually shuts down [...]
We Love Tapas and ELECMOVE created a very special collaboration a few months ago - the Cycle & Tapas Tour - offering an introduction to Seville on electric bikes followed by a delicious Traditional Tapas Tour. But it was only recently that the WLT Team got together with ELECMOVE to experience the electric bike tour [...]
We are pleased to announce that We Love Tapas Sevilla has been nominated as a potential winner in the Luxury Travel Guide 2016 Holiday & Tour Specialist Awards. UPDATE February 1 2016: We Love Tapas has won! Culinary Experience of the Year for Seville in the 2016 Holiday & Tour Specialist Awards!
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 [...]
What does foodie heaven look like? We bet it looks something like this… It all happened this past weekend in Seville and of course we were there, eating and drinking non stop! There were 19 different food trucks from all over Spain with their delicious creations. To start we tried out our own local food [...]
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 [...]
Update January 2017: The Seville wheel is no longer operational. Ferris wheels have been around as a fairground attraction for a long time now (the first was designed and erected by George Washington Gale Ferris for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago), but over the last couple of decades they have become increasingly popular as [...]
For some people “cultural” stuff like art or historic monuments is what you do between eating and drinking and more eating and drinking. For others, it’s the other way around. But whichever kind of holidaymaker you are, you are likely at some point to find yourself in a museum. Seville has lots of these, covering [...]
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 [...]