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Our Basque Village School in Ituren.

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 27 January 2016 / Published in Basque Country Walking, Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food
Basque, Spanish and English songs at our Christmas party at our Ituren village school
Sad to leave our Basque Village School! Above Carlos’s bar in Ituren plaza is our Basque village school. This small primary school has currently some 63 children ranging from 3 – 11 years old and all subjects are taught in Basque. The children come from the villages of Ituren, (and its three satellite hamlets of
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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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Cider Houses in the Basque Country .. and a few less trees

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 15 February 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle
Cider drinking at the mushroom fiestas in Elgorriaga
For some reason cider has become the theme of the week … and not a drop has yet passed my lips . .. I swear! My partner, the village lawyer, always seems to get interesting cases when the Basque cider houses open (usually between January and April) although I have to admit, the  ‘wild-boar-in-the-boot-of-the-car’ case during last
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Carnivals of Ituren & Zubieta 2011

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Bears in the plaza during the Ituren carnivals
Ituren Carnival: 31st January 2011 After a mug of hot broth, (caldo), traditionally made from boiled pork and chickens feet, we climbed the steps to the attic rooms above the town hall and plunged into a frenzy of bells and ropes, of sheep’s skins and brightly-coloured swaddling ribbons. No, don’t be misled by the pretty pinks
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Home-made Basque cheese

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 10 June 2010 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food
A guest post from Veronica of La Recette du Jour. We took the opportunity of living a few months at Iaulin Borda in Ameztia in the Navarran Pyrenees. It is next door to a sheep farm run by Sagrario and her husband, Ignacio, so we to went over one day to find out how our neighbour makes
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Farming by the Moon

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 28 May 2010 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle, Wildlife of the Pyrenees
Amatxi in the vegetable garden of Zubialdea in Ameztia
One of the striking things I have learned in this Basque farming hamlet of Ameztia, is just how much of daily life is affected by the moods of the weather and the cycles of the sun and moon.  Amatxi, (our adopted grandmother of 83), always says that the full moon heralds a change in the weather. Yesterday there was
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