by Irene Corchado Resmella | Dec 5, 2018 | CULTURE & TRADITIONS
20 August. I checked my phone and saw a notification from my Spanish friends’ WhatsApp group. It was a picture of a Christmas Lottery ticket. Someone had just bought it while on holidays in northern Spain to share it with the rest. Here we go again. DISCLOSURE This...
by Irene Corchado Resmella | Jan 11, 2018 | CULTURE & TRADITIONS
Summer 1992 at a shopping centre in Vitoria, Basque Country. We were heading out after some afternoon family shopping, when the alarm went off. The security man approached my grandad, who was carrying a shopping bag. “Perdone, pero creo que lleva usted una alarma en...
by Irene Corchado Resmella | Dec 12, 2017 | CULTURE & TRADITIONS, FOOD & DRINK
I know. Churros are not exclusive to Extremadura, but I thought the blog would be the best place for me to talk about this. This Spanish snack enjoys such popularity in the UK that the term is already included in the Oxford dictionary, and I don’t even have to...
by Irene Corchado Resmella | Dec 7, 2017 | History, Other stuff
You read a book or watch a film set in a specific destination, and then you can’t stop thinking about the place. Has it happened to you? Has a book or a film sparked your curiosity for travelling somewhere new? Are films and books part of your pre-trip learning...
by Irene Corchado Resmella | Nov 13, 2017 | CULTURE & TRADITIONS, FOOD & DRINK
One day, the main topic of a French class at my secondary school was food. We were talking about whether people in Spain and France have two courses or just a main meal for lunch. A classmate said ‘Well. At my house, we only have the main course, and then el plato.’ I...
by Irene Corchado Resmella | Dec 22, 2016 | CULTURE & TRADITIONS
My dad’s colleague is a fan of Formula 1, so when he found out my boyfriend R works for one of the teams, he got excited. He asked whether R would buy a T-shirt for him and take it to Extremadura on our next trip. He would, of course, gives us the money. No, R...
