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

Ituren Carnivals – and a Brummy in their midst

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 28 January 2015 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Me, Marion and Iñaki with out neighbours in Ituren
I know, I know, I have written about the Ituren carnivals many times before (see links below) but the reaction is so raw, so overwhelming  each single time we participate that I feel compelled to put it down. They are not my people, I am from a ‘middle-class’ Birmingham suburb with Accessorise and John Lewis down
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The People of the Baztan Valley

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 08 January 2015 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Baztan Valley, Spanish-English differences
Xan Milhura and his family escorted allied pilots over the border into the Baztan Valley
The origins of the Basque people has been a subject of great debate, and of great political interest. Here is a study on the people of the Baztan Valley, a traditional Basque valley in the northern Pyrenean valleys of Navarre which throws some light on the subject. The People of the Baztan Valley In 2010 a team
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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
Basque ox and cart
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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