by Debbie Jenkins | Cooking, evergreen, food, Murcia Region
The Levante (South East corner of Spain) is famous for its astonishing variety of sweet and savoury pastries made daily (recien hecho) in the local bakeries (panadería or pastelería). Pastries are a staple of the Levante daily diet since the Moorish times when flour...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, Cooking, evergreen, Murcia Region
You may have noticed that Spanish restaurants seem awfully quiet – when you go in. This is probably because you haven’t worked out how to eat like a Spaniard yet. Read on to find out how to go native and eat like a Spaniard and understand how...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
The game of caliche is particular to the Murcia / Levante region of Spain, based on a nationally-played game called herrón. If you, as we did, look up caliche in the English-Spanish dictionary (after seeing it in the itinerary for the local fiesta), you might be...
by Debbie Jenkins | Activities, evergreen, Murcia Region
My personal experiences of the luxury of a spa visit have been few and far between and to be honest, a little scary. I had a weekend break at Ragdale Hall, where the food was sparse, the treatments were regimental and the alcohol was non-existent (except for the...
by Debbie Jenkins | Celebrations, evergreen, Murcia Region
Taking Having Fun Seriously! “Eh, hombres, enhorabuenas!” Miguel El Gordo shouted at me and my husband Marcus, over the din of that night’s “entertainment.” The second night of our fiesta was punctuated with the clamour of a heavy rock band. It was two in the morning...
