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🍷 🇪🇸 What to Drink in Seville: A Sip-by-Sip Guide to Spanish Drinks Culture
One of my favorite things to do when we travel is to explore the local drinks (alcoholic and not) situation. I could spend hours in the local grocery/wine/liquor store just studying the shelves. Ken is not as enthusiastic about this activity, so I usually send him off to climb a mountain or something. When we’re…
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🇪🇸 Shooting & Sherry: I Shot My First Red-Legged Partridge
A glorious day of shooting with Delaney & Sons in Spain today. I shot my first red-legged partridge, drank some sherry, froze my ass off, and drank some more sherry. Bought Ken a beautiful Spanish leather belt in Córdoba yesterday. Did not know belt sizing in Europe is wonky. Way too small for Ken. So…
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🇪🇸 A Sherry-Fueled Day at Las Loberuelas: Spanish Partridge, Sun, and Surprises
The shooters are shooting today. I will be not-shooting. And drinking sherry. Surprise Surprise/not surprise: our 19th century house has 19th century plumbing. No hot water this am. Nope. No shower for me. It’s gonna be a greasy hair don’t care day! We are at the traditional Spanish shooting estate, Las Loboruelas today, shooting (hunting)…
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Exploring Jerez: A Wine & Sherry Adventure
Switching beverage gears from Port to Sherry today with tasting tours in Jerez, which is pronounced locally, HARETHHHH. Spain Spanish is always an adjustment for my ears. Bodegas Luiz Perez Lovely tasting at Bodegas Luiz Perez, where they are producing still wines from traditional local varieties, in particular, a grape called Tintilla. Wasn’t really my…