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I blame anna

10 Tuesday May 2016

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i blame anna

I set off on Monday afternoon to meet up with my friend Anna Mayer for a tapita. She had just arrived in town for a short stay and I hadn’t seen her in ages. So we started off with a vermouth cocktail at Palabra de Bar, near my house. But I should have known by that mischievous look on Anna’s face that the day would take a turn or three.

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After our lovely vermouth cocktails we were walking towards the centre of town and the skies suddenly opened. We ended up taking shelter at Casa Antonio Los Caracoles. As Anna pointed out – it was destiny! Snails are now in season and there is no better place in town to try them.

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But since women can’t live on snails alone, we ordered a few other tapitas. Which we needed to fortify ourselves because…

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…just before we met up, Anna had been invited to a Rías Baixas wine tasting event at the Hotel Alfonso XIII and this ended up including me. Thrilled! So after our hearty tapas lunch we headed over to the event.

i blame anna (4)Here’s Anna and I seriously tasting seriously lovely wines. But I should’ve either sat closer or brought my glasses because I couldn’t read the powerpoint thingy.

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Long story short…. after the wine tasting there was a “salon de vinos” with I don’t remember how many bodegas offering their delicious wines and then one thing led to another. By this time Anna had gone home, and I stayed on with other friends, going out for tapas later on, and even later rolling home around 1 am (!!), about twelve hours after I’d left the house. I blame Anna.  😉

victor’s first crackburger

25 Monday Apr 2016

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It’s always a treat when my friend Victor @welovemalaga (also my biz partner @welovetapastour) breezes through town – usually during one of his crazy busy 3-week tours that take him through Spain, Portugal and Morocco. This past Sunday we had a couple of hours at lunchtime together to catch up and enjoy a few tapitas.

victor (2)The Crackburger™

I was shocked to discover that Victor had yet to try the world-famous Crackburger™ at La Brunilda. And so off we went to remedy this situation. As luck would have it, although people were waiting for tables when we arrived, the bar had been left wide open (a sure sign that all the clients were foreigners), so we grabbed a couple of bar stools and ordered up.victor (3)

The verdict? Victor absolutely LOVED his first (but not last) Crackburger™. I always love being there for someone’s first special gastronomic experience, be it jamón, pringá, sherry, etc. It’s great seeing the expressions of joy, hearing the delighted MMMMMMs, and knowing that – even in some small way – these people’s lives have been changed forever.