Category: Group – Spanish culture cuisine

Saturday 15th August – Following cancellation, some places are now available on this day trip. If you would like to join us all, please send an email to Angela Chantry: spanish.culture.cuisine@gmail.com The Porrat de Polop is a typical Valencian village fair and the origins of these festivities date back more than 200 years, when a…

Following a late cancellation, 2 places are now available on the tour. If you would like to join us all, please send an email asap to Angela Chantry: spanish.culture.cuisine@gmail.com Saturday 22nd August – Tuesday 1st September 2026 – 10 nights Enjoy the magic of landscapes ranging from tall peaks, glittering waterfalls and valleys dotted with…

We left Javea on a lovely sunny morning, and made our way to the Huerto del Cura, a private, historic garden, declared a National Artistic Garden in 1943 as part of the Elche Palm Grove. It is known as the Priest’s Garden, getting its name from Chaplain José Castaño Sánchez who owned and lovingly cared…

Saturday 15th August The Porrat de Polop is a typical Valencian village fair and the origins of these festivities date back more than 200 years, when a market or “porrat” was held around the San Roque hermitage, where residents bought supplies for their gardens and homes. Over the years, the market evolved into what are…

12th – 20th April 2027 (8 nights, dates to be confirmed). A new Spanish Culture & Cuisine trip is being planned to Extremadura, a western Spanish region bordering Portugal. If you have not been to this area before, make a note of the proposed date in your diary! Extremadura is an area of mountains, forests,…

Monday 2nd November at the Bombas Gens Centre d’Art Digitals The actual dates for the Exhibition have not yet been announced, hence the provisional date for the moment.  As with the Titanic Immersive Exhibition which 50 of us visited in April at the same venue, we will have a lunch for the group in a…