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Articles on the Basque culture and traditions of the Basque Country and in the mountain villages of the Spanish Pyrenees.

Beautiful Basque Country Farmhouse B & B – with a tortoise on the tap

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 29 May 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle
Cottage in the Pyrenees, Navarre, Iaulin Borda,
Thirteen years ago our beautiful Basque Country farmhouse B & B in Ituren was nothing but a tiny mountain barn with a rustic outdoor toilet and a tiny brass tortoise on an outside tap! Once a haunt of sheep and wild ferrets (and a couple of grotesque toads that centered themselves up maliciously each night
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The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo

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Georgina Howard
Monday, 14 April 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Baztan Valley, Dolores Redondo, Elizondo
The Invisible Gardian by Dolores Redondo
Review by Steve Cracknell When I read Georgina’s article, I thought: this is a book I have to buy. I haven’t read any detective novels since George Simenon died but I have lived in the Baztan valley where the novel is set, and I can use it to improve my Spanish. So I wasn’t particularly
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Beyond the Michelin restaurants San Sebastian has to offer

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Georgina Howard
Monday, 31 March 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food
Venturing further than the Michelin restaurants San Sebastian so proudly presents to the world, more intrepid travellers find that the white-washed mountain villages of the Basque Country have some wonderful culinary secrets of their own. Apart from the cider festivals and mushroom fiestas, sheep’s cheese competitions and roast lamb banquets in village squares … you
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Baztan Valley – Traditions and Code of Honour

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 19 February 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Baztan Valley
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Views of the Baztan Valley The Baztan Valley in Navarre is an area of extreme beauty and mediaeval Basque landscapes which, due to geographical, social and political factors, still keeps many of its secrets to itself. There are almost eight thousand people living in the Baztan Valley, spread between its fifteen pretty, white-washed villages. Elizondo
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The Baztan Trilogy, Dolores Redondo – are we ready?

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 06 February 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Mythology, Baztan Valley, Dolores Redondo, Visit the Pyrenees
Approaching Elizondo in the Baztan Valley
The Baztan Valley and its Mysteries. We thrive on mysteries in the Baztan Valley. Our history, our wealth, our survival – in fact our very identity – has always depended on our intimate knowledge of our land. This has been our closely-kept secret since the beginning of time and I revel in the opportunity of
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The importance of ‘work’ in the Basque Culture

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Spanish-English differences
The Baztan valley - making hay while the sun shines
As I dashed out of my neighbour’s farm Amatxi (the grandmother) waved to me from the door ‘Que trabajes mucho!’ she said; a translation from the Basque ‘lan haunditz egin’ meaning ‘I hope you have lots of work!’. She wasn’t being funny, nor making subtle remarks about my lazy ways, (I don’t think), she was
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