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Post women and chemists in Ituren

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 24 March 2017 / Published in Basque Lifestyle
Josetxo's chemists in Ituren
The chemists in Ituren I was a little concerned when Josetxo (who runs the chemists in Ituren) said he would leave the pills I had ordered hanging on the outside handle of the chemist door in case I dropped by after he headed off for his evening run. Going to the chemists sometimes needs a
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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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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 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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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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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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