FOOD AND PHILOSOPHY

Part of this is our open-house philosophy, so please help yourselves to food, wine and washing machine whenever you want.  (By the same token, do remind me to water the flowers or raid my dwindling stock of English teabags if we run low!).  Although all meals are catered for, and we often have lunch at a local restaurant, don't hesitate to join in if you want to, but only if you want to.

Help serving the wine, laying the table or making the salads is always happily received and we do find that the more our guests get involved, the more everyone gains from the experience.  As far as the Spanish language holidays are concerned giving a hand cutting the garlic or making a tortilla can be a great vocabulary exercise!

Phil and Paul's tortilla competition

We would like to pay tribute to some of our past guests' great culinary contributions: Jean's wonderful blackberry and apple crumbles, Angela's devil's pasta sauce, Delfina's ajoarriero and Peter's fantastic curries.  Phil and Paul's tortilla competition will go down in history!  We use local produce whenever we can and pick up fresh eggs, cheese, tomatoes, lettuces, courgettes etc. from my neighbours' farms.  Cherries, apples, peaches, blackberries, walnuts and figs can often be picked straight from the trees.

We host only small groups of up to eight or nine people and, naturally, provide absolutely everything - single rooms, unlimited food, wine and Patxaran, restaurants, walks and professional Spanish language tuition without supplement.