Tag: pinxtos

• Pinxto Paradise: 5 Pinxto Bars in San Sebastian

  

  I love San Sebastian. I fell for it hard on our first trip there in 2012 and I’m still enamored. I legitimately want to buy an apartment there. I’m not exactly in a position to do so just yet but a girl sure can dream. So what do I love about San Sebastian? Oh, just…

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  February 26, 2016

  food (of all types), travel

  anchovies, Food Porn, gin and tonics, La Cuchara de San Telmo, pinxtos, San Sebastian, Spain, XFE

• Running of the Bars: 5 Pintxo Bars in Pamplona

  In Pamplona, we had a plan. Well, not so much a “plan,” really. More like, a “vague, sort-of idea on some things that might be interesting to see and do.” Unlike Bilboa and San Sebastian, where we’d actually been before and where I had made long lists of pinxto places we absolutely had to go…

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  February 23, 2016

  food (of all types), travel

  blue balls, Pamplona, pinxtos, Running of the Bars, Spain

• Mini Meals: 5 Pinxto Bars in Bilbao

  I might have mentioned that on our recent trip to northern Spain we ate all the pinxtos. You might have thought that was an exaggeration. I assure you. It was not. We really did eat pinxtos from morning till night. There’s just something about those little appetizer-sized wonders that I just adore. Maybe it’s all…

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  February 12, 2016

  food (of all types), travel

  Bilbao, calamari-ish, Cher, mermaids, pinxtos, Spain, tuna

• Back to the Basque

  Hola, mis gentes. And Happy New Year! (Where did 2015 go? Seriously. I can’t believe it’s a new year. I’m woefully unprepared.) My travel-compadre-for-life and I have had a sort of travel rule for the last 10 years, which is: “Let’s go to new places. Places that neither of us have ever been.” After all,…

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  January 7, 2016

  food (of all types), travel, Trips Down Memory Lane

  Athletico Bilbao, Bilbao, Hotels, pinxtos, San Sebastian, soccer, Spain, Starwood Properties, travel philosophy, XFE

• San Sebastian Revisited (Six Months Later)

  I have a weird blogging habit – I hate to put up my last post from a particular vacation. I guess subconsciously I feel like it’s the last time I’ll savor a place. That writing that last post means that vacation is truly ended and in the books and only to be relived on the…

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  May 7, 2013

  food (of all types), travel, trip report, Trips Down Memory Lane

  Baigorri, La Cuchara san Telmo, local foods, pinchos, pinxtos, Rioja, San Sebastian, Spain, trip review

• Take a Bow, Bilbao

  Bilbao. The name itself fills the mouth. I’ll admit, at first, I kept messing it up. Pronouncing it like the last name of a certain famous movie boxer. I could not quite get my tongue around it. For the record, it’s Bihl. Bow. As in, take a bow. And indeed, the resilient Spanish city by…

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  November 28, 2012

  food (of all types), travel, trip report

  Athletico Bilbao, Basque, Bilbao, fire kebabs, Guggenheim, Hotels, local foods, museums, pinxtos, soccer, Spain, trip review, vino tinto

• Spain Does Not Suck

  Hola chicas (y, un solo chico, possiblimente)! Como estamos? I’m great! And back from a fabulous vacation in Northern Spain. Petunia really wanted to go. She’s Calico, which is kinda close to Catalonian, so she thinks she should go to Spain. In the photo above, she is sitting on my travel binder. Oh, do you…

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  November 19, 2012

  food (of all types), travel, trip report

  Bilbao, Guggenheim, La Cuchara de San Telmo, local foods, luxury travel, miles and points, pinxtos, Rioja, Spain, trip prep, trip review, winetasting