Georgie’s La La Land: Episode 26 Segway-ing around Barcelona

// February 18th, 2010 // 5 Comments » // Travel Videos

Episode 26: A bunch of bloggers plus the beautiful city of Barcelona and a pinch of Segways = Oodles of two wheeled fun in the sun. We get the wheels spinning around the Gothic quarter and down to the beach… Mucho Mucho Love… Come Join In in HD.

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Quad Bike Adventures in Berga, Spain.

// February 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Catalonia

The afternoon was well under way by the time our bus rolled into Berga, the mornings hiking and that smashing lunch were now well behind us. Situated half way down the mountains Berga had a sleepy, one horse town sort of feel to it. But we weren’t there for horses… We were there for adventure – adventure in the form of Quad bikes!
(The company we were there with was called Indomit, they organise all sorts of adventurous activities and some pretty crazy ones too).
Now Georgie and I are no strangers to the ways of a quad, (more…)

Georgie’s La La Land: Episode 25 Bergueda Adventures

// February 2nd, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Travel Videos

Episode 25: We take to the Catalonian mountains in Spain and get hiking in Bergueda in -7 conditions, overdose on mushrooms at Els Roures and then rip it up on quad bikes through the Berga hillside… Mucho Mucho Love… Come Join In… Watch in HD.

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Hiking in the Bergueda Mountains, Spain.

// January 25th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Catalonia

Spain happens to be one of those lucky countries that enjoys the best of all worlds, you’ve got the option of sunning it up on a beach or rolling in the snow. Sip coffee at a cosmopolitan cafe in Barcelona or get good and adventurous up in the mountains. Which leads me nicely to to what happened next in Catalonia… Adventure in the Bergueda mountains. It was yet another early morning for the intrepid bloggers and the previous nights epic buffet dinner was definitely not helping matters. To be honest it was beginning to rub a little, not starting dinner until 9 pm and then up at 7 am – but when the wine is flowing we aint the kind of cats to say no, the price – not much more than 6 hours sleep and a hangover every morning. But, nothing a spot of hiking in the snowy mountains wouldn’t fix… (more…)

Experiencing Catalonia | Day 2 Cookery classes

// January 11th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Catalonia

By the time we all left La Boqueria market we were frozen to the bone. It was a cold morning in Barcelona and being in amongst all the fresh fish on ice really didn’t help! Teresa, our guide from Cook & Taste (the little place where we were going to get Catalonian cookery classes) led us out into the sunshine of Les Rambles and back to Plaça de Sant Jaume,, then up another shady alley – everything in Barcelona seems to be up a little alley of some sort.

Cook & Taste is a small, modern studio with a large kitchen inside. The walls are bare stone, the kitchen is clean and simple and the whole place felt earthy and WARM! We were there for a reason though and that reason was thus: To cook up a storm like never before! We had our local produce and next it was time to roll up our sleeves and get a cookery lesson Catalan style.

We were handed a glass of wine and a menu… I was thinking -
“This is my kind of cookery class…. I’ll have the beef”
But no, on closer inspection it was indeed not a menu but a recipe – three recipes in fact.
To start – Pumpkin cream with crispy leek and cream cheese quenelle.
For main – Noodle Paella.
Dessert – Crema Catalana… (more…)