While I’m sure it comes as no surprise that during my time in Spain I quite literally ate my body weight in traditional Spanish foods like cured meats, local cheeses, tortilla Española and so forth, I also made an effort…
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Traditional Winemaking at Mas Molla Winery
At Mas Molla Winery in Calonge, Catalonia, the word you’ll hear time and again is “tradition.” In a winemaking world where techniques are changing and evolving faster than you can say “stainless steel fermentation tank,” it takes a mountain of…
Not Your Grandma’s Camping: The Bungalow Parks of Girona
From the primitive canvas tents employed by our grandparents to the sophisticated-for-the-times tent trailers of my childhood to the mega-RVs big enough to sleep an NFL team or two, it’s safe to say camping has evolved. Even those who still…
Tranquility in the Streets of Medieval Girona
Those colors. Those dusty reds and burnt oranges, those muted yellows and sandy browns. As I crossed the River Onyar for the very first time, the sight of Girona’s well-known color blocked apartments was seared into my memory. It was…