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The origins of our Self-Guided Walks in the Pyrenees

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 12 December 2014 / Published in Visit the Pyrenees, Walking in the Pyrenees, Wildlife of the Pyrenees
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The Telephone Call Our self-guided walks in the Pyrenees were pitchforked into action after a phone call from a Houston lawyer around Christmas 2012. Steve was heading to the Basque Country with a group of lawyer friends and wanted me to design 6 days of self-guided walks in the Pyrenees to lead them over the
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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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El Día del Joaldunak (When I got the dates wrong!)

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 24 July 2012 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Xabier, Ituren Joaldunak.
It is the day that only the villagers know about, (and me) and last year I got it terribly wrong! This is the private day of the Joaldunak – the mythical, pagan, carnival personality of our village of Ituren. This is the day they make their personal pilgrimage to our mountain farms in honour of
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A Portrait of an English Mother in a Basque Pyrenean Sheep Shed. Autumn 2005

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 15 April 2011 / Published in Basque Lifestyle, Bilingual Families, Wildlife of the Pyrenees
I dug this paragraph out from my writings years ago when Marion was just 1 year old and it reminds me of many of those tiny cultural differences that I suppose I now take for granted. We wake up reeking of the raw onion on the dressing table …..Amatxi’s solution for Marion’s cough. It works but we
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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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