tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292234734288428102024-03-14T10:56:24.666-07:00Hotel Posada del ValleThe hotel, the farm and the enviromentNigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-28707464563632194642015-03-30T08:20:00.001-07:002015-03-30T08:44:24.613-07:00 A Family Bussnes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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many years as a small family business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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personnal that make this special place the way it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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door, Joe will probably be waiting for you, ready to greet any new guest,
taking pride in making sure the place looks beautiful with the help of freshly
cut flowers from her garden. If you need any ideas on where to go or just want
to talk about what you would like to do, Joe listens carefully and will give
you advise on how to make the most of your holiday. Her many years as a chef
& restaurant manager are very useful assets for the kitchen team, where she
helps and shares her experience on how to make the most of the seasonal
products. Her favorite place and company is when she is gardening with her
cats. Her motto: Relax & enjoy every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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working in food production, specifically on growing vegetables. Nowadays he
makes the most of his time so that he can keep fit and have opportunities to
enjoy walking and continue exploring Asturias' huge potential for walkers. This
has led him to cherish in depth knowledge of what the region has to offer
walkers and how to run a small scale diverse farm. His general management work
in the hotel is combined with advise for guests on walking opportunities
that offer unique experiences of all the different landscapes Asturias has to
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Posada del Valle's very special Kitchen. Her mission and joy is to be able to
satisfy everyones food needs. She loves experimenting, however this doesn't
stop her from being very organized. She enjoys baking and preparing vegetarian
and vegan meals, and all she needs to do is close her eyes and she can see what
vegetables are ready to pick in the garden. When she is not in the kitchen, you
will probably find her gardening, felting or working on a new DIY skill. She
also loves to escape and go for a walk, admiring the countryside, making the most
of the mountains and coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his personal take on Asturian flavors, through his playful and creative
knowledge of traditional cooking. He is a perfectionist that always takes pride
in the presentation of food. Cooking is not his only skill, he loves mending
many things, creating things and sometimes just for fun. He loves playing mind
games, solving puzzles or his favorite hobby that he recommends to all the
guests; simply relaxing and having a good time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mary Poppins, she does a bit of everything and is always ready to greet guests
with a huge smile. Full of energy, she is up early before breakfast and her
many years taking care of the hotel give her knowledge of all the little
secrets of the place. She knows every single hidden corner, how everything
works and is always willing to solve anything. Whenever it is the right moment
she is off dancing or spending a great time with her family. She has lived many
years in Collía and is very proud of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always ready for action with a gentle presence, she is happy welcoming and
accommodating guests, also helping in the kitchen and taking care of the rooms.
She adapts well to the unforeseen, giving welcolme support. She loves working
in a friendly environment and certainly contributes to it with a smile and a
joke. Her passion is her son, Carlos and she shares her free time between her
hobbies: music, literature, cross-stitching and having a coffee with friends.
Patricia loves the area where she was born.."sometimes you don't have to
go very far to discover new places, you can just wonder around the beautiful
Hotel farm"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to learning makes her the ideal teacher to help people discover new talents
learning Spanish or new art techniques. Born in Asturias, in the city of
Aviles, she now lives in the countryside, where she can develop her passion for
nature and traditional culture. You can meet her in one of our Language
immersions or Art workshops. She loves helping others feel comfortable while
exploring and doing new things. When not at work she enjoys painting, spending
time with friends and travelling. Her holiday recipe is to find the right
balance between exploring new places and taking the right time for yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course going on, or you go for a walk round the farm you will probably meet Seb
in one of his many versatile roles. Passionate about ecology and self
sufficiency, he works part time on the farm, helping his father out with the
endless tasks there always are on the land. Also a bit of an IT geek he works
on the website and on-line marketing, but he is most happy when he is
organizing and facilitating non formal learning experiences. A passionate
believer in communities power of change he enjoys new projects and playing with
ideas and solutions that care for people and planet. When it comes to
discovering new places his motto is: take it slow and be mindful of how the
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-45883224099888148882015-02-17T05:52:00.002-08:002015-02-17T05:58:11.087-08:00The hotel through the season<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hotel in early February with snow on the Sueve Mountains behind the hotel</span></td></tr>
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Asturias
(and the whole of the North of Spain) is a region where the weather changes a
lot. Not only does it change according to the seasons but it can also change in
a short period of time. However the seasons
and the weather are what helps give Asturias that magical scenery and special
feeling at any time of the year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hotel in April </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our wild flower meadows in May</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Enjoying a drink outside the Hotel in July</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Autumn at the hotel.</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-5270525997094834782015-01-22T10:08:00.001-08:002015-01-22T10:20:25.280-08:00Visiting a Major Cider Producer<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Escanciando" or pouring cider from the vat for everyone to try</span></td></tr>
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With the
idea of finding new activities and experiences for our guests to enjoy whilst
staying at <a href="http://www.posadadelvalle.com/" target="_blank">the hotel</a>, we’ve started visiting a lot of different places so as to be able
to recommend what’s available and what each guest might enjoy best.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cider made from 100% asturian apples</span></td></tr>
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famous for its cider; the region’s major drink. For people who want to see how it’s
made traditionally we always recommend them to visit the <a href="http://www.rutalquesuylasidra.com/" target="_blank">Ruta del Sidra y Queso</a>, a fabulous two hour tour talking about cheese and cider followed by an
excellent lunch.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking round the instalations at Sidreria Cortina</span></td></tr>
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straight out of the vat. Last week we visited <a href="http://www.sidreriacasacortina.com/" target="_blank">Sidrería Cortina</a> in Villaviciosa, they
are well organized and we had an interesting tour. After the tour it’s possible to have an
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pouring cider from the vat</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Explaining why asturian cider has to be drunk as soon as it is poured.</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-4658442727395704132014-12-23T04:37:00.002-08:002014-12-23T04:50:54.234-08:00Visit our vegetable garden and see how we try to work with nature<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hotel vegetable garden </span></td></tr>
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So what can you see or learn from our vegetable garden lost in the mountains of Asturias? It certainly provides the hotel with many lovely ingredients for the restaurant but is our production system for vegetables really of any relevance to those who live and grow your vegetables so far away?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So many different vegetables coming from the garden</span></td></tr>
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In my earlier years I worked in different countries advising on how to grow vegetables on a large scale, but that was using “industrialised” techniques where you try and “control” everything and work against nature. In these systems you try and use a one recipe fits it all ; plant a mono-crop, use one seed variety, control the weeds with herbicide, fertilizer with inorganic fertilizer and apply pesticides as much as needed (which is normally a lot.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No artificial fertlilzer used here! just manure and compost</span></td></tr>
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Times have changed and now I am lucky enough to have a small mixed diverse farm where the vegetable garden is a very important part of the enterprise. Now I try and work with nature, looking at what’s around me, trying different things and adapting to what’s best suits our particular site. Small scale diverse farming / vegetable growing is very site specific, one recipe doesn’t fit all locations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different young seedlings protected from the cats.</td></tr>
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So when you come and visit our vegetable garden as well as seeing lovely vegetables waiting to be eaten (hopefully) your see; crops, techniques and planting dates which are specific to our site but when you want to work with nature there are a lot of general principles and practices which are valid for most organic vegetable gardens.<br />
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Here are some of the principals which I think are important to nearly all sites;<br />
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Most important <b>plant the crops and choose the varieties which are best suited to your site</b>. Do try different crops and varieties and see which perform best for you.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The yellow plant on the right is a blueberry but our soil isnt acid enough for it so we now have stopped trying to grow bluberries</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are "caiguas" the seed came from Nepal but they grow very well in our garden and now form a part of our cropping system</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This leafless plant is a gooseberry but it gets devasted by saw fly so we have stopped growing them</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is amaranthus sometimes known as chinese spinach, in the dry summer it grows like a weed on our vegetable garden so we often leave patches and harvest it as a spinach.. and it's delicious</span></td></tr>
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<b>Plant a diverse range of crops</b>. Nature inherently dislikes mono-crops and inevitably tends towards diverse systems.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not only do we plant different crops but we plant different varities to increase the diversity and resilience of our plot. Here are different types of lettuce.</span></td></tr>
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<b>Use organic mulches as much as possible</b>. This is nature’s way of fertilizing the land; leaves fall on the top of the soil, animals defecate on the soil surface and then this organic matter is slowly incorporated in to the soil by an amazing array of living organisms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We make as much compost as possible; excellent for mulching</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Organic matter, the more the better!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A coarse mulch being used for the pumpkins</span></td></tr>
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<b>Plan and follow a crop rotation</b> to prevent the build up of pests or the soil becoming “tired” of any one crop.<br />
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<b>Avoiding standing on the soil particularly when it’s wet</b>. The physical structure of the soil is really important for root growth and biological activity so don’t damage it by compressing it unnecessarily.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Good soil structure prodces good crops</span></td></tr>
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<b>Use cover crops and avoid leaving the soil bare</b>. Bare soil doesn’t exist in nature and is prone to leaching<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We use oats as a cover crop in the winter</span></td></tr>
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Look and learn from your own crop experiences and<b> learn to understand what plants are saying to you</b>. This takes practise but for example look how plant's appearances change according to different circumstances eg. how dry they are, time of day, how close they planted, when growing with lots of manure etc.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two courgettes of the same variety; one is a lighter green than the other, what is it trying to tell you?</span></td></tr>
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Also have a good long look at your site and try and understand any minor differences there may be; different amounts of shade, soil types, orientation, frost pockets etc. And take this into consideration when thinking about the positioning or suitability of any crop on your site.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part of our vegetable garden gets more shade than the rest, here we tend to plant summer fruiting raspberries which dont llike it too hot.</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-16673166815371528092014-12-08T11:05:00.001-08:002014-12-08T11:06:21.419-08:00Inntravel Discovery Day 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">All ready with the stand prepared and ready for the people to enter</span></td></tr>
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from the UK yesterday where Sam, Andres, Joe and I had been to exhibit at the
Inntravel Discovery day. <a href="http://www.inntravel.co.uk/" target="_blank">Inntravel</a> is the major travel agent with whom we work
and they specialise in independent holidays, with a bias towards people who are
interested in walking, good food and authentic accommodation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Every three
years they organise a travel fair where all their suppliers (destinations and
hotels) are invited to exhibit their products. This year they celebrated it at
the Harrogate International Centre on Saturday the 6th.</div>
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In total
there were about 70 stands (including ourselves) and it was attended by over
1,400 people, not bad considering entrance is by invitation only. The hotels
supply information about what they have to offer; the accommodation,
destination, activities etc. and normally have some products for the people to
sample. This year we took our own apple juice and some local blue Cabrales cheese
and homemade apple jelly for people to try.</div>
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All in all
I think it was a very successful event, with lots of interest being shown by
people about Asturias and what we are doing. In the evening there was a gala
dinner with music by the excellent New York Brass Band (from York) and all in
all we had an enjoyable, if not tiring, time.<br />
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-28321026457708771332014-10-23T13:46:00.004-07:002014-10-24T06:11:27.596-07:00The 3 Senses Gathering<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Satish and Ignacio talk for the guests and the radio at the 3 Senses Gathering</span></td></tr>
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Last week we
celebrated a most amazing event at the hotel; the 3 Senses Gathering with
Satish Kumar. This multi-lingual and intercultural gathering was organized by
our son; Sebastian and his partner; Lidia and inspired by Satish Kumar’s life journey and his
grand new book; “Soil, Soul and Society.”<br />
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There were
various activities for the participants including walks through some of the
beautiful Asturian Landscape, creating art, helping with the cooking and in the
vegetable garden, as well as meditation and yoga and not to forget, enjoying lots of lovely food.</div>
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Ignacio
Abella a local author whose works embrace many books on trees including “The
Magic Life of trees” accompanied us some of the time and also led an inspiring
walk in a local beech forest.</div>
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the public at La Ventuca in Coya and included talks by Satish Kumar, Ignacio
Abella and Gustavo Duch a writer on food sovereignty. There was also an eco
espicha where everyone brought along some food and shared it at lunch time.</div>
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With over 170 people attending the event on Saturday it was a great success and everyone
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the events with different bilingual interviews and talks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For more information on our son's company Gaia Y Sofia which specialises in non formal education<a href="http://gaiaysofia.com/" target="_blank"> click here.</a>Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-6019949373328304752014-09-29T09:12:00.000-07:002014-09-29T09:43:53.595-07:00A few High Peaks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">La Torezuela 2322m one of the many peaks in the Western Massif of
the Picos de Europa<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">September
is normally one of the best months for summiting some of the higher peaks here
in the Picos de Europa. So here are a few photos showing some of the peaks in
the Western Massif.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The normal starting point is the lakes of Covadonga which are at about 1,100m. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he slopes just above the lakes are gentel with some pastures but get steeper and rockier the higher you go.</span><br />
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view from Cotalba 2026m where you can see the grassier lower slopes and the
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falling stones from fellow climbers (particularly when climbing up gulleys) so
it is best to wear a helmet if you want to climb these high peaks.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking at Torre Santa Maria de Enol from the summit of the Canal Parda 2350m</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.7200002670288px;">Mountaineers post boxes are often found on the summits where mountaineers leave cards stating the route they have climbed, the date and the weather conditions</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peña Santa 2596m the highest of the Peaks in the western massiff, as seen from Vega Huerta</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">People often do strange things when the reach the summit, like here on the summit of Piedrasllenguas 2295m</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The view towards the central massiff from the summit of Piedrasllenguas</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chamois are very often present at these higher altitudes, carefully watching what you do.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">To reach
the summit of some peaks involves scrambling along an aerial crest like on
this one; La Roblliza 2227m </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The aerial crest up to the summit of La Robliza, not for everybody!!</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">Depending
on the year even in late summer there can still be some snow on the sides of
the higher peaks (Photo of Torre Santa Maria de Enol taken mid august)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The same peak (Torre Santa Maria de Enol) taken in mid feburary</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">But if reaching the high peaks in late
summer is challenging, reaching them in winter is even more so!</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Enjoy the mountains, but take care!!<br />
<br />Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-86427238065685685352014-08-29T10:28:00.002-07:002014-08-31T06:30:22.185-07:00Caiguas grow in Asturias and they taste lovely.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Caigua plants growing in the hotel vegetable garden</span></td></tr>
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Although we
give preference to growing local varieties and local crops we also like to try new
varieties and new crops to help increase the range of home grown fruit and
vegetables that we provide for our guests. Any new
crop or variety we plant has to be evauated to see how it grows under our specific
conditions and to see if the fruit or vegetable has good eating qualities.</div>
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With this
in mind we tried growing caiguas this year, from some seed which I brought back
from Nepal where it is grown and greatly appreciated. This vegetable has many different names
including achojcha, slipper gourd, stuffing cucumber, korilla, olochoto and kichipoktho
but the most common name is caigua which comes from South America where it is
grown the most.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fruits ready for eating raw, juicing or cooking.</span></td></tr>
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From the
information I could find I knew it was a vigorous creeping vine which likes a
lot of warmth and water and needs between 90 and 100 days before it starts
fruiting.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The plant
is certainly very vigorous but this last week, two months after we planted it in our vegetable patch, it is starting to produce an abundance of fruit.
The fruit are lovely to eat raw but also absolutely delicious sautéed tasting something
like a cross between a pepper and a cucumber. There are also many recipes from
South America for stuffed caiguas which we have yet to try. And apart from tasting good according to all the literature caiguas are a miracle health food helping to regulate cholesterol levels and they even have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The plant has both male and female flowers these are the clusters of male flowers</span></td></tr>
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The plant
is hardy and disease free and unlike other cucurbits we grow such as cucumbers
or courgettes the caigua doesn’t suffer from mildews. This is where I see the interest in this crop
for our vegetable plot; to start producing lots of fruit in late summer when
our courgettes are starting to suffer and produce less.</div>
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first year we try the caiguas but we will definitely try them again next year
and what is sure caiguas grow in Asturias and the guests love them.</div>
Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-44218917802232926142014-08-22T06:51:00.000-07:002014-08-27T08:03:36.847-07:00Magnificent in their glory, trees on the farm.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">False Acacia trees on the farm in winter</span></td></tr>
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It was a stormy summer’s day and the farm
was in her best clothes, magnificent giants guiding the way. I suddenly looked up and saw these
beautiful specimens paving the way.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It made me think about the farm, Asturias
and how local people have cared for these trees which in return reward them
with their ware.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walnut tree outside the dinig room window</span></td></tr>
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Take the noble walnut tree, not only a
delicious fruit in the autumn, but in years past the timber was used for fine
furniture. We have the most magnificent tree outside the dining room window.
One of the local pastries here is Casadiellas, filled with walnuts and anis.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walnuts from our farm</span></td></tr>
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The Ash trees grow quickly and abundantly,
spreading their branches offering shade from the midday sun for the animals and
then in the autumn coppiced for extra winter fodder. If you travel in the Pico’s
you will see the stone stables surrounded by the ash trees.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hazelnuts from the farm</span></td></tr>
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Around the hedges are found the Hazel trees
with many stems, these in the past were trained to produce fences. The nuts are
collected in September, if the boars and badgers don’t get there first... Many
a beautiful basket here is made from the hazelnut tree.</div>
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As traditions go there is a local Hazelnut
fiesta in Infiesto the first weekend of October, then in Arriondas there is the
Chestnut fiesta in November.</div>
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We have many chestnut trees on the farm; I
was amazed by the beautiful catkins’ on the male trees.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The village people here talk about the
famine during the civil war and chestnuts were boiled and eaten as a meal. In
some areas, La Molina, you can see the remains of stone like igloos Quires’
made for storing chestnuts in the winter.</span></div>
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It is strange to think that nearly all the
trees had their uses, even the intrusive Acacia was originally grown for its
timber to make the fences around the farm, not one of the friendliest trees
with its huge thorns, and if it wasn’t for the animals who trim the young
shoots it would take over the farm. I believe this was originally brought in by
the people who emigrated to South America and returned to Asturias.</div>
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For culinary purposes we have the Laurel
tree, the leaves used in many stocks and sauces, the animals will eat a
mouthful, and then move on. On Palm Sunday local people take a sprig of laurel
to church to be blessed by the priest; this is then given to the godparents,
who in return nowadays buy a special cake for the godson or daughter.</div>
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There is a large Lime Tree at one end of the
farm, the people here used to collect the flowers to make an infusion; it was
supposed to help you relax. We have many cherry trees with sweet and sour
cherries, the sour ones called guinda are used here for a liquor, made with
anis. A very popular drink in Asturias.</div>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-69537085842417736472014-08-06T09:36:00.003-07:002014-08-06T09:36:40.544-07:00Growing for Flavour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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an excellent group of chefs at the hotel but what do we do in the vegetable
garden to maximise the flavour of what we grow and serve?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">The varieties we plant<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the most important factor which influences in the flavour of the crop we grow
is the variety we choose to plant. </span>You must
have come a cross a rock hard tomato in a supermarket which tastes like
cardboard. This is because originally these varieties of tomato were bred to
travel long distances and sit in the supermarket shelves for weeks. When the
plant breeders produced these long shelf life varieties they had no
consideration of flavour, but after the introduction of these tasteless tomatoes
the overall sales of tomatoes actually started to decrease. That’s when plant
breeders started to select for flavour and now there is a wide range of modern
and heirloom varieties available which taste good.</div>
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At the
hotel we plant the tomato variety Suncherry Premium in our greenhouse which I
must say has outstanding flavour, not only is it sweet but it has an excellent
sugar acid ratio. The fruits are slightly larger than a cherry tomato and the
plants are easy to grow. If you’re after flavour I really would recommend
giving it a try. Another tomato variety we sometimes grow is Sun Gold its
claimed to be the sweetest tomato there is (and probably is) but lacks a little
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Strawberries
are another example of a fruit where breeding for shelf life came in detriment
to flavour. How many times have you come across giant firm red strawberries which
look great but are such a disappointment to eat? Well there is now an excellent
variety called Albion available especially recommended for organic growers it’s
easy to grow and tastes sublime. We managed to get hold of some plants a few
years ago and since then we have replaced all our strawberry beds with this
tastier variety and boy do you notice the difference.</div>
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trialing some new blackberry varieties and again flavour is one of the major
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of leafy crops and root crops are also greatly influenced by the variety you
grow. Little gem and Batavia lettuce are the best flavoured lettuce, Mona Lisa
is an excellent tasting potato, the list of tasty varieties goes on…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The superb flavoursome potato we grow; Mona Lisa</span></td></tr>
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interested in flavour before buying your seeds or plants try and find out a bit
about the eating qualities of the different varieties, internet is an amazing
source of information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good a fruit or vegetable tastes when freshly picked from the plant once picked,
its flavour will start to decrease. This is because once picked the sugars the
fruit contains will slowly start to turn to tasteless starch and many of the
other flavour components will start to break down into simpler less flavourful
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healthy for you tastes incredible good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flavour. There is not much we can do about the amount of sun we get but in
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as sodium, potassium and magnesium) influence on flavour. Plants grown with an
excess of water tend to have larger more watery fruits with less flavour where
as plants grown with more “salts” tend to have smaller fruits, lower yields but
more flavour. When I worked with tomatoes many years ago in the south of Spain
there was a time when Marks and Spencers actually asked the growers to irrigate
their crops with a mixture of sea water to help increase the flavour of the
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to be taken as you can easily kill or weaken a crop if you use too little water
or too much fertiliser, particularly if you have a clayey soil. But a practical
tip for increased flavour is mulch with leaf mould as it is high in potassium
and has none of the detrimental effect an inorganic potassium fertiliser might
have. So start saving all you leaf falls this autumn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Printmaking. This Art Work Shop is run by Lidia and this blog entry is written
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our guest Sandy sent me an email to book an art workshop, I had a mixture of
feelings. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">First, I was very enthusiastic, as I always feel when it comes to
sharing artistic techniques, and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">painting with others. I love that explosion of creativity, those "unspoken"
conversations that take</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">place, with our hands, our imagination. Then, I felt I had to compromise
between the spontaneity I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">like to work with and the structured process of a lesson on a
printmaking technique. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Eventually I got carried away with my initial enthusiasm
and started organizing the workshop full of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">energy; and the 3 hours workshop with
Sandy was more than inspiring! it was full of patience, love</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">for all beings and the Asturian land, and
full of wonder. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Do you know the "white paper" fear we all have
somehow when we start to paint something, to</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">create something?; </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and how about the fear, at least my fear, to attend an art class full of
rules, with a teacher telling</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">you what to do, what is a good result and a bad result?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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challenge!</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Sandy was thinking a lot before the
workshop, she had some clear ideas on what she wanted to do, and came with a
challenge: let's recreate this photo! and I thought, wow!! this will be
difficult!. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Collagraph
Printmaking technique consists in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">gluing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> different materials, organic, recycled materials with different
textures into a cardboard model. Materials and shapes will be revealed in a different
way, they will absorb the ink and retain it differently, leaving a darker or
clearer colour print. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So with some
observation on results everyone can make an idea about what is going to happen,
how the print is going to emerge; but for the first time, it is quite a
difficult task. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Usually, we start printing some already made designs, and try
creating a simple and purely experimental model. But this time it was
different, we had a picture, so we had an expectation on the result,..a real
challenge! A cow in the mountain! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a 3 hours workshop, Sandy had time to carefully and slowly design her model
with some help, but you know a "teacher" cannot say everything from
the beginning, so some little mistakes and big realizations happened, moments
to learn and discover the magic of this technique that is like a mirror, like a
specular image. The result is always a joyful and creative surprise!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Magic
happened! </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">we used a few old pieces of cardboard,
some oregano, a piece of old sandpaper (first time I've ever thought of using
it!), glue and coffee. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We created the 5
layers that the landscape of the photograph had, and added volume to the cow with
an extra one!..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after prinking 2 old designs of my own, to get familiar with the printing
process, Sandy ended up with 3 beautiful and different versions of her cow in
"El Sueve"! (the mountain range that rests behind the hotel)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">More information on this Art Workshop can be <a href="http://www.posadadelvalle.com/courses-and-events/art-workshop" target="_blank">found <u>here</u></a></span></div>
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Hotel
Posada del Valle in Asturias proudly announces it has been accepted as a Gold
level GreenLeader into the TripAdvisor®GreenLeaders™ program, which helps
travelers plan greener trips by identifying environmentally-friendly
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TripAdvisor GreenLeaders have met a set of environmental standards developed
for TripAdvisor by a leading environmental consulting firm, with input from
expert partners. The more green practices a hotel has in place, the higher its
GreenLeader level, which is shown on the property's listing on the TripAdvisor
site.<br />
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Travelers can now search for accommodations that have a GreenLeaders status on
the TripAdvisor site, and view a detailed list of environmentally-friendly
practices that they can expect at each location.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">“TripAdvisor
GreenLeaders are leading the hospitality industry in making efforts to improve
their environmental footprint," said Jenny Rushmore, director of
responsible travel at TripAdvisor. "We greatly applaud these accommodations
and are pleased to share their eco-friendly practices with our online audience
of more than 260 million travelers who visit<br />
the site each month."<br />
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The TripAdvisor GreenLeaders program was developed in partnership with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® program, the U.S. Green Building
Council, and the United Nations Environment Programme. </span>For more
information, please visit <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/GreenLeaders" target="_blank">www.tripadvisor.com/GreenLeaders</a><br />
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level GreenLeader award will join our certificate of excellence awarded by trip
advisor for this year</span></span></div>
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El Hotel Posada del Valle en Asturias, se enorgullece de
anunciar que ha sido elegido como "Gold level Green Leader" -
"Líder Verde nivel de oro" por el programa de TripAdvisor®GreenLeaders™
, el cual ayuda a viajeros y turistas a planear sus viajes verdes y sostenibles,
identificando alojamientos respetuosos con el medioambiente</div>
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Los alojamientos elegidos por TripAdvisor GreenLeaders
("Líderes verdes") cumplen con una serie de estándares
medioambientales desarrollados por una consultoría ambiental líder para TripAdvisor,
en colaboración con agentes externos independientes. De esta forma, el establecimiento
es posicionado en un ranking de excelencia, con un nivel GreenLeader más alto,
cuantas más buenas prácticas ambientales se estén implementando. Eta
información está accesible para los usuarios y viajeros que pueden consultar el
listado en la web de tripAdvisor.</div>
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Los viajeros pueden ahora buscar alojamientos con el
certificado GreenLeaders en la web de TripAdvisor, así como consultar una lista
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"Los Green Leaders de TripAdvisor son pioneros en
liderar la industria del alojamiento sostenible, haciendo un gran esfuerzo en
mejorar y reducir su huella ecológica" cita Jenny Rushmore, director de
turismo responsable en TripAdvisor. "Aplaudimos enormemente el esfuerzo de
estos alojamientos y estamos encantados de compartir sus prácticas ecológicas</div>
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con nuestro público, de más de 260 millones de viajeros que visitan nuestra
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en colaboración con el programa de la Agencia de Protección Medioambiental "ENERGY
STAR®" y el Consejo de Edificación Sostenible de los EEUU, y con el
Programa Medioambiental de Naciones Unidas. Para más información, visite <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/GreenLeaders" target="_blank">www.tripadvisor.com/GreenLeaders</a></div>
Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-56628562550904418622014-06-28T09:29:00.000-07:002014-06-28T09:42:32.682-07:00A short story about Karst Limestone Landscapes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3d3d3d;">Lime stone is the rock that predominates in Asturias and The Picos de
Europa are a geological unit composed almost purely of limestone and are the
largest single mass of mountain limestone in Europe</span>. The hotel is actually
built on a limestone outcrop and this limestone becomes very noticeable in the
upper part of our farm; but have you thought about what limestone actually is?</div>
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Limestone
is a sedimentary rock composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms (calcium
carbonate minerals) such as coral or foraminifera shells. Yes that’s right;
this means that the rock underneath the hotel and the soil on the hotel farm was
made from shells of animals that once lived at the bottom of the ocean. A
billion year history through the movement of tectonic plates brought these
rocks high above the ocean, where we stand today.<br />
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However the story of this mother rock doesn't stop here, it's the relationship
of limestone with water that leads to these so called "karst
landscapes", water eroding limestone over thousands to millions of years.
The landscape at the top of the farm is very similar to the one in many parts Picos
the Europa. Almost all of the rock in the Picos is limestone, and glacial
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The mysterious stories of karst affect not only the rock that you can see, it
also happens underneath the dark soil where we can't see. Above sink holes,
flutes, runnels, vertical shafts, clints and grikes are some of the most
visible features on the surface of the terrain. Beneath the surface,
complex underground drainage systems (such as karst aquifers) and extensive
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As for all the inhabitants of this landscape, farmers in karst areas must take
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rainfall may be adequate, but rainwater quickly moves through the crevices into
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Parched landscape near Vega Ario in the Picos</span></td></tr>
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A delicate and precise management of the land
makes this unique place a living museum. Here the most outstanding geological
sculptures are married with a sustainable farming system that brings to life a
cultural conservation of nature.</div>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-87761206272841657652014-05-31T08:38:00.002-07:002014-05-31T09:37:30.701-07:00New Cookery workshops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">We have been running cookery workshops at the hotel
for over 5 years, and with the experience we have gained plus the feedback from
participants we are now going to be offering three different one day workshops;</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">All the courses are informal and hands on, and each course will be led by a
different chef from the hotel. There are three special chefs at Hotel Posada del
Valle, each one with a different interest and experience in cooking</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andrés preparing "tortas"</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; padding: 0cm;">Andres is from Cangas de Onis and comes from a family
of farmers who also used to make the local blue Gamonedo cheese. He studied cooking
in Asturias and has been working in the hotel for 5 years. In this food
experience Andrés will take you on a tour of a local food market (or around
some local shops if there is no market that day) and explain a little about the
Asturian food culture. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sunday food market at Cangas de Onis</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">Then you will be cooking such typical dishes as Fabada
Asturiana (bean stew,) tortas (maize pancakes) and a tortilla de patata (Spanish
omelet.) You will then have time to sit down and enjoy all you have cooked with
a glass of local cider.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Samantha examining some of the farm produce</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Samantha was
born in Alicante but has lived in Asturias for the last 18 years. She is an
excellent self taught chef specializing in vegetarian food. Her particular
interest is in vegetarian and vegan food and the creative use of local and home
grown produce. In this work shop you will have a guided visit of the hotel
vegetable garden, help pick some of the produce and then subsequently use it in
different imaginative ways. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">The particular recipes will depend on the time of
year and what’s growing on the farm and of course there will be time to sit
down and enjoy the food you have prepared with a drink.</span><br />
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<b style="line-height: 19.2pt; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Posada del
Valle's Food Specials</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt; text-align: justify;">; <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Chef JoAnn Burch </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">JoAnn studied cooking and worked as a chef in many different countries before
starting the restaurant at the hotel. Due to her experience, talent and work
the restaurant has gained the fame it is now renowned for. She has also trained other
chefs who have come to work and learn about the local and organic food we produce
at the hotel. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joann demonstrating how to make a roulade</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">In this workshop you will learn how to prepare some of the most popular dishes
served at Hotel Posada del Valle as well as some different techniques which can
be used to create a variety of recipes. At the end of the morning there will be
the chance to sample the food you have prepared with a glass of wine.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fun time learning</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt; padding: 0cm;">Join us on one of these courses and discover
"what is behind the scenes" when cooking local, organic and wholesome
meals at Hotel Posada del Valle.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;"> We have a special marked date for each experience; if
you are interested in other dates please contact us. For all courses there will be a minimum of two participants and a maximum of six. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">Beneath is a resume of these three cookery workshops with prices and dates and <a href="http://www.posadadelvalle.com/courses-and-events" target="_blank">on our web</a> you will find information about the other courses we are offering.</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Asturian cuisine</span></u></b><span lang="FR" style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; padding: 0cm;">; Chef Andres Caso. </span><span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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activities</span></u></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guided visit to local market or shops<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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preparing local dishes; fabada, Spanish omelet, maize pancakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoying the food you’ve prepared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 19.2pt;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Farm to fork;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Chef Samantha Burch </span></span><br />
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grown vegetables and how to use them in imaginative cooking</span></div>
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guided tour of the hotel vegetable garden and harvesting of ingredients for
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preparing a variety of vegetarian dishes from the freshly harvested produce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Valle's Food Specials</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.2pt;">; <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Chef Joann Burch </span></span><br />
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some of the most popular dishes served at Hotel Posada del Valle</span></div>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-75142791403090638252014-05-14T07:44:00.000-07:002014-05-14T08:14:51.867-07:00Guess what fruit tree this flower is from?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Over the
years we have planted lots of different fruit trees on the farm so as to
provide a range of home grown fruits for our restaurant. </span>For the first
person who can guess what fruit tree this flower is from and let us know writing
their answer on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/posadadelvalle" target="_blank">Hotel Face book</a> page we will give a bottle of organic Ribera
Del Duero red wine from our carefully selected wine list.</div>
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A lo largo de los años hemos plantado mucho arboles
distintos en la finca con la intención de ofrecer a nuestros huéspedes la mejor
variedad de fruta casera. La primera persona en adivinar de que fruta es esta flor y nos lo hace saber con un comentario en el<a href="http://www.facebook.com/posadadelvalle" target="_blank"> Face book del hotel</a> le obsequiaremos
con una botella de vino de Ribera del Duero ecológico de nuestra cuidad carta
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El ganador puede venir al hotel a recoger su premio.<br />
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-71958446362097275982014-04-25T10:03:00.002-07:002014-04-26T00:56:23.659-07:00A Great Year for Orchids on the Farm.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A rare Man Orchid growing amongst the rocks in our wild flower meadow.</span><br />
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Our wild
flower meadows are array with wild orchids this year and there are six different types in flower at the moment. To see so many of these rare
and beautiful flowers is very rewarding and gives us encouragament for the management
program we implemented in our wild flower meadows many years ago.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Woodcock Ophry Orchid growing just 5 meters from the hotel</span><br />
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though we do anything extra special on these meadows other than follow traditional
farming practices. We cut the meadows for hay in late June and then have the
sheep grazing the meadows in November. We’ve been following this system for
over 10 years and the continuity of our practices along with the weather is
really showing the benefits this year; lots of orchids and a great biodiversity in general..</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close up of a Provence Orchid</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lots of Provence Orchids in the meadow</span></td></tr>
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One of the major problem
we have with maintaining the population of orchids on these meadows is wild boars.
These large animals, which run wild here, love to dig up the orchid rhizomes and
eat them like they were a delicacy grown especially for them. As a consequence a lot of the orchids in our
meadows are found growing in the rocks where it’s more difficult for the boars
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Signs of wild boar rooting in the meadows</span><br />
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So for guests lucky enough to be walking round the farm trail this time of the year there are orchids galore to be seen! There
will also be plenty of other wild flowers in our meadows over the next two months and
with them an amazing array of butterflies.</div>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-80089636483388205212014-04-08T00:53:00.001-07:002014-04-08T06:38:26.972-07:00Pigs and more; the story of our free range pork.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Ponga is a
very little known mountain range directly west of The Picos de Europa. It’s a beautiful
rugged area which was declared a Natural Park a few years ago, and is home to
the most important beech forest in the Iberian Peninsular. It’s probably one of
the areas we most enjoy walking in and have gone there many times with guests
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ponga; an amazing mixture of mountains, woodlands and traditional farming</span>.</td></tr>
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Many years
ago I had a really lovely experience in this area when I discovered a group of
ten large pigs lying in the shade of the beech trees close to a small mountain
stream. They were cautious of us, but not frightened and we could see someone
had been feeding them old pieces of bread. They got up, checked we had nothing
for them to eat and then started rooting around in the ground and slowly
trotted away. To see pigs in such a natural environment is a really lovely
sight and since then we have spotted groups of pigs on various occasions in
this area. I often wondered who looked after them and whose they were.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first group of pigs we saw in Ponga</span> </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">One day back
in 2004 when we first started sourcing organic produce for the hotel I found
myself in a large supermarket in Oviedo looking at long rows of pork chops in
polystyrene packs. There were also a few odd packs of organic pork from Soria which is about
500 kms away. This made me decide to investigate what were the minimum
conditions necessary for a pig to be certified organic. Obviously organic pigs
have better conditions than their poor factory farmed counterparts but I was
still surprised on some of the practices permitted and I didn’t really know
what was going on at this farm 500kms away. I suddenly remembered the wonderful
site of the pigs roaming freely in the forests and decided I would try and find
out who owned them and if he ever sold them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our neighbour Victor </span></td></tr>
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I spoke
about these pigs to our neighbour Old man Victor, who at that time was 73 years
old and had been a farmer all his life. He knew there were farmers who still
let the pigs run wild and fatten up on the beach nuts and chestnuts in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Ponga</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountains</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
It had been quite some years since he had been in that area and decided he
would like to come with me to try and find the pig’s owner. We set of early one
misty morning, he threw his small cigar away before he got in my car knowing I
didn’t like cigarette smoke. We drove up the Beyos gorge and after talking to 3
or 4 local farmers in the area realised there were 2 farmers who raised these
free range pigs. After a few more coffees in some rather pokey local bars we
discovered who was one of these pig farmers and where he lived. Amador Crespo from
San Jaun de Beleño.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beech nuts on the forest floor in Ponga</span></td></tr>
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We met him
at his house at lunch time, he had just come down from the high mountain pastures
where he had his cows grazing, he was quite a small person and very open. He
told us he had up to 30 pigs grazing in the forests from late spring to autumn.
Most of them were already pre-ordered by local people, being fattened up ready
for “San Martin” the sacred dates when sausages would be made. He had a few
extra pigs and so I said I would be interested in 2 of them and arranged to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Autumn colours of the beech trees in Ponga</span></td></tr>
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October came
and the pigs were ready. Amador’s son has a lorry and so transported them to
the slaughter house in Mieres where we went to supervise the jointing of them.
No money was paid to Amador till after we had the pigs delivered from the
slaughter house to the hotel and we knew their weight. We told Amador the
weight of the pigs and then paid the agreed price per kilo for the whole pig.
It all worked on trust.</div>
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Over the years
I visited Amador various times and got to know how he operated. He often talked
to me about some of the farming problems; wolves being the major problem with his animals which were running free in the mountains. I learnt that if the snow line came down
in the autumn the pigs would come down from the mountain forests to the town
where they would run around in the streets or shelter in some of his old stone
stables. When they couldn’t graze and feed in the wild (because of the snow) he
would feed them on a mixture of cereals, mostly barley and maize. He didn’t use
organic cereal and certainly wouldn’t be bothered with all the bureaucracy that
would be necessary to certify his pork organic, but for me he worked so well
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Abandoned village in Ponga</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Very sadly
he died in the spring of 2008 and at first no one in his family wanted to carry
on his work. It seemed like it would be the</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> loss of another traditional hill farmer. </span>Then his son Marcos decided to give up his factory job and return
to the family home to carry on farming like his father had
always done. Each year we still get a couple of pigs from Marcos and although
they are not certified organic we are more than happy with the way they are produced. We consider ourselves very lucky being able to spend the time
needed to discover and get to know our suppliers. This first hand knowledge about our suppliers is very importante to us. Obviously you can’t visit all the suppliers of the products
you consume so that’s when we rely on other forms of guarantee or certification
normally an organic certification.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Beech forest in spring</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Buying
whole pigs direct from the farmer has made us realise other things. There was a
time when the hotel first opened (17 years ago) when we always served pork
tenderloins in the restaurant normally with a prune and Malaga wine sauce.
However when we started buying the pigs direct from the farmer out of the
200kgs of pork meat from the 2 pigs we brought there were only 4 x <st1:metricconverter productid="1 kg" w:st="on">1 kg</st1:metricconverter> tenderloins! So what
about the rest of the meat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our pork sausages made from the free range pork</span></td></tr>
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One of the
most popular dishes Joe developed was sausages based on a Danish recipe for
“frikadelas” By mincing some of the poorer cuts she produces this lovely dish
served with a mild mustard sauce. Cooking for a slower life also means learning
how to use all the different cuts of meat of an animal, so as to reduce the
global movement of specific meat cuts, from one country to another.</div>
Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-71237446558367057992014-02-27T04:02:00.002-08:002014-02-28T09:44:07.699-08:00Hawks Hill<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Walking along Hawks Hill</span></td></tr>
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A rocky limestone ridge starts right behind the hotel, it’s about four kilometres
long and the section closest to the hotel is known as “Cerro Los Gavilanes” or Hawks Hill. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The start of the Hawks Hill Ridge can be seen just to the right of the hotel</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here you can see the ridge towering up behind the hotel</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The term Hawks Hill is a little misleading as rather than a hill it’s a ridge
which is quite challenging to walk along. Some sections are covered in gorse, there
is a lot of sharp Karst rock and a small but definite scramble is needed to
traverse the middle section. However for the experienced adventurous walker it
does provide some spectacular views of the surrounding countryside and its
right by the hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The start
of the walk (climbing up to the ridge from the hotel) has always been the most awkward part of
the walk but last week I discovered a new way of accessing the ridge. Although this new “path” is slightly
overgrown it is still easier to use to climb to the ridge rather than the way we used
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sam and Andres climbing up to the ridge from the hotel on the "new path"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The full length of Hawks Hill Ridge as seen from the Mirador del Fito</span></td></tr>
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The summit
of Hawks hill is 552 meters high and althought it is a low peak there are spectacular views of the Picos de Europa, the coast and the Sueve Mountains. It
takes about two hours to reach the summit from the hotel and when you are on the summit you are only about one third of the way along the ridge. If you carry on the ridge towards
the coast you come to “Los Escalarines” or small steps where some scrambling is needed and then
shortly afterwards the ridge gets even narrower and more exposed!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Climbing down the very steep "Escalarines" or small steps</span></td></tr>
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various points where it is possible to climb down from the ridge to join the
road and walk back to the hotel or you can return the way you came to avoid the more difficult sections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Farming scenery as you descend down the ridge towards the road.</span></td></tr>
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As for
birds you can normally see various raptors on the ridge including hawks,
griffon vultures and there is even a nest of Egyptian Vultures.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Views towards the coast from the summit of Hawks Hill</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-41611522347353511202014-01-21T04:11:00.002-08:002014-01-21T04:15:56.233-08:00Preparing for a new season<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hotel in winter with snow on the Sueve mountains.</span></td></tr>
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Although we
shut the hotel to guests for five months during the winter there is always
plenty to do preparing for the coming season.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the
biggest jobs we have contracted this winter is the painting of the outside of
the hotel including all the woodwork.
Over the years we have painted some sections of the hotel ourselves,
those areas which have been easy to reach but there are other areas which
haven’t seen a coat of paint in 18 years due to their difficult access! So this
year we decided to hire a couple of local painters who our builder recommended
to paint and treat all the wood on the outside of the hotel. They started
painting in December and hopefully will be finished by early March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Inside the
hotel we (well mostly Joe) has been painting some of the walls as well as recovering
the chairs in the dining room. Each year we send some of the sofas and bedroom
chairs to be recovered by an upholsterer and this year is no exception. We also
have had some of the wooden floors in the bedrooms filed and polished.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Revising walking notes; at the Mirador de Ordiales in the Picos</span></td></tr>
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But the
winter work isn’t only about decorating and maintenance within the hotel. It’s
also a time when we can reflect on what we are doing. We can check and revise our walking notes and
we can also visit some of our suppliers and check if there are any new products
we should be incorporating in our menu. This year we have found an excellent
Pale Ale made here in Asturias so that will be on offer alongside the organic
beer we have always stocked.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Asturian Pale Ale!!!!!</span></td></tr>
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There is
also a lot of work on the farm in the winter; cutting down old trees, mending
fences and removing any prickly growth such as brambles which might be starting
to grow in the meadows. And the animals always need checking and feeding.<span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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Then of
course there is the vegetable garden and all the jobs which are necessary so we
can have a great supply of fresh produce for the restaurant during the months
we are open. Last season’s crops have to be cleared, beds weeded, mulching and
sowing seeds, just to name a few of the jobs<br />
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Another big
job this winter has been the preparation of the <a href="http://www.posadadelvalle.com/" target="_blank">new hotel web.</a> We wanted a web
which is more visual and better adapted to small screens like mobiles or
tablets. We have included a German and French version of the web as well as
incorporated an on line booking system. The web will not be static and with
time we will be incorporating even more information. Sebastian has been of
great help with the web as this has been a major project.</div>
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is a lot to do over the winter but we do also get time to have some holidays
ourselves and relax a bit and what a lovely envornment to relax in! </div>
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Five years ago we
conducted a study on the food that we serve in the hotel. We wanted to know how
much of the food was produced by ourselves, and where the rest of it came from.</div>
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<span lang="EN">We were pleased
to find that about 30% of the food was produced on the hotel farm. Since then we
have tried to increase this amount though it is actually been quite difficult. The
percentage we produce our selves has gone up slightly but unless we start to
grow wheat or keep cows and pigs we won’t be able to make significant increases.
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Of the food we don’t
produce ourselves over 15% is bought directly from certified-organic local
small producers. We still bake all our own bread, cakes and desserts from basic
ingredients, representing another 20% of the food consumed. The amount we buy from
specialist organic distributors is about 30%. It’s also worth mentioning that
over 98% of all the products used in the hotel restaurant are certified organic.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Local producers in the market at Cangas de Onis</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN"><b>But what does
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<span lang="EN">When 30% of the
food we use is produced by ourselves, that means a lot of fresh food, so a lot
of preparation time in the kitchen – scrubbing, peeling and cutting vegetables
and fruit<span style="color: red;"> </span>– no ready-prepared packs just waiting
to be opened and cooked. It also means the cooking has to be adjusted to what
is available and in season. Growing and farming are weather dependent, and however
hard we try on the farm, we don’t always get a continual supply of the same food
all through the period when the hotel is open. Most of the food is seasonal,
and this means that the kitchen has to adapt to what is available from the farm
at any particular time of year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">For example, in
April there are normally lots of mangetoute peas, then broad-beans in May, an
abundance of raspberries and strawberries in June, plenty of beetroots in July,
</span><span lang="EN-GB">courgettes</span><span lang="EN"> from July to September, peppers in August,
and so it goes on. And it’s not only the vegetables that are seasonal: the
chickens lay lots of eggs as the day-length starts increasing in March and
April; our lambs are at their best by July, having fattened up on the spring
pastures; and then there is the apple harvest in October. True food is
seasonal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><b>Imaginitive
cuisine.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">When I asked Joe
what she thought was the most characteristic thing about the hotel cuisine, she
said it is cooking with what is available. This means making the best use of
what we have in the vegetable garden at that moment (or what is available from
other small producers, or the market, or wherever), and using imagination in
the way the food is prepared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Roulades are an
excellent example of adapting the dish to what’s available. Roulades can be
based on so many different ingredients – such as leaf-beet, leeks, or carrots
for savoury roulades – or on soft-fruits for dessert roulades, such as raspberries
or strawberries. And when you get a glut of beetroot, for example, it can be
roasted with cheese as a vegetable to accompany the main course, or used to
make soup, or served in a salad with an orange mayonnaise, or served marinated
in honey – and of course in a roulade. It’s all about imagination and
creativity, and Joe certainly has those when it comes to food.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The result is a
tasty, varied and healthy cuisine, using lots of fresh produce. It’s often only
a couple of hours from the time the food is picked to the time it’s served on
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<span lang="EN"><b>Local products
and varieties</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Is the food we
serve typically Spanish? Probably not. But because of our belief in using local
varieties and races, the food we serve is based on a lot of genuine Asturian
products. We often grow local varieties, and even produce the seeds of some of
them so as to help maintain those varieties, as is the case with our onions,
dried beans, and maize. Our apples are all Asturian cider-apple varieties. Our
lamb is the indigenous Asturian race the “xalda”, now recognized by the slow
food movement. Our beef comes from another indigenous breed, the “casin”, or
Asturian mountain cow, which we buy direct from a young organic farmer called
Angel Merino. Angel grazes his cattle on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Sueve</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountain</st1:placetype></st1:place>
range just 5 kms from the hotel. We buy a whole cow, which gets sent to the
slaughter-house, and then we go to the cutting-house to supervise how it is cut
for us and to help pack it. We then have a whole cow, with lots of different
cuts of meat, and imagination is needed again to think of ways to prepare the
different cuts. Maybe we will serve fillets with a mild “Cabrales” sauce
(Cabrales is a local blue cheese), or a stew with peppers and tomatoes, or maybe
we will make sausages and serve them with caramelized onions (onions from the
vegetable garden of course, and from a variety which was saved in the village for
40 years and we now maintain the seed stock.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One thing is sure
– a lot of work, time and effort are put into sourcing, growing, preparing, and
cooking the food that we serve in the hotel restaurant. However, to serve food
which not only tastes good and is healthy, but embraces our beliefs, respects
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<o:p></o:p>Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-65312739430370292872013-12-02T09:40:00.000-08:002013-12-03T03:51:42.584-08:00Winter Vegetables<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The vegetable garden basking in the winter sun</span></span></td></tr>
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from our holidays last week and the first job on the farm was tidying up the vegetable
garden after 5 weeks of neglect. With the help of some good weather and a few
days work it’s now looking more or less like it should do. So </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">here are a few photos taken this afternoon
showing what we’ve got growing at the moment:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amazingly we still have lots of peppers to pick! </span>I</span>n
fact we have got so many peppers that we have been making lots of chutneys
and relish to use them before the bad weather comes and spoils them.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blocky "Californian" peppers </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></span><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">More normal winter vegetables for this time of year are members of the Brassica family like cabbages, swede, turnips and brocculi. We have different Brassica planted; some for us to eat over the winter and some hopefully will be ready when our first guests arrive next April.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Savoy cabbage for spring harvest</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Early purple sprouting just ready for picking</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Late purple sprouting which should be ready for picking in March and April</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We have lots of swedes. Some are for us to eat over the winter, some will be for guests in early spring and if we have too many the sheep love them!</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These are the last of our oriental vegetables which are also members of the Brassica family. They grow fast and can be used either in salads or in stir frys.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and last but not least oats, not for eating but for a cover crop; we sow them rather than having bare soil over the winter. They will help to help keep the soil in exellent conditions ready for the next crops to be planted here in the spring</span></span>.</td></tr>
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<br />Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-31635956267262995152013-10-17T08:10:00.001-07:002013-10-17T08:41:50.526-07:00A new circular walk from the Hotel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sueve mountain range where the new circular walk goes</span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Asturias is
a paradise for walkers but unfortunately many of the walks are not well waymaked
and information in English is often very limited. So about ten years ago we started putting
together a collection of self guided walking notes </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">to
help our guests enjoy the many fabulous walks Asturias has to offer</span>. In the beginning we offered maps and notes for
only 10 walks but over the years we have selected and incorporated new routes and
now have 42 self guided walks for our guests to choose from.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of our
most popular local walks is along the Coastal Mountains of the Sueve where
guests take a short taxi ride to the Mirador del Fito and then walk back along
paths and tracks to the hotel. Up untill now when guests have wanted to do this
as a circular walk they have had to start the walk by going for six kms along a
minor road up to the Mirador del Fito. It’s a very minor road for most of the
way with practically no traffic but it’s still a road.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So last
year when I discovered a new footpath between two local villages; Cofiño and
Arriondas I knew this was the missing link for a new circular walk from the hotel
along the Sueve Mountains but avoiding the 6 kms along the minor road. I wrote
the self guided notes at the beginning of this season and now various guests
have tested out the new notes and I am pleased to say none got lost!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The walk
goes along a variety of different paths and tracks; following streams, passing
through open farmland, along the Sueve Mountains and then finally skirts around
the Peña Forcada and back to the hotel. However this circular walk involves a 600m
accumulative ascent and in one small section attention needs to be taken with
navigation, also in another part the path is quite rocky so this walk may not
be for everybody.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For those who do attempt the walk the scenery is varied and
many of the views are simply stunning and then for those walkers with plenty of
energy there is the possibility of including the ascent to the Summit El Pico
Pienzo, but that makes it a total of 1200m ascent!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Early morning views on the new circular walk.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> More information on the walk can be found on the link to our walking blog below:</span><br />
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<![endif]--><a href="http://walkingasturias.com/?p=743" target="_blank"><span style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Circular walk from Hotel Posada del Valle Collia to the Pico Pienzu</span></span></a><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Happy walking! </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-31531729343748082282013-09-23T14:36:00.002-07:002013-09-24T07:29:30.642-07:00Farming settlements in the Picos de Europa<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The majada or mountain pasture of Vega Ceñal in the Western Massif of the Picos de Europa</span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Much of the scenery, tracks
and pathways within the Picos de Europa are due to the pastoral livelihoods of
the local people - a way of life that still exists but is in decline.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A farmer moves his cows from a lower valley settlement to the high mountain pasture near the majada de Juentes</span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Typically farming in the Picos de Europa
involved</span>
the local people moving their
cattle, sheep, goats and horses from their low-altitude winter quarters in the
valleys, to the mid-altitude pastures ("invernales"), then to the
high mountain pastures ("majadas"), a practice which may have begun
during Neolithic times, and can involve up to 1000m of altitude gain. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cows grazing in the high pastures way above the Lakes of Covadonga</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many
people never left the majadas from spring through to winter, remaining high in
the mountains with their animals for 6 or 7 months of the year, living in
clusters of small stone huts. <span lang="EN-GB">However today very few farmers spend the
summer months in the mountain settlements, most just visit their animals a couple
of times each week.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stunning setting of the abadoned high pastures of the Beyugal where farners would have lived for up to six months of the year</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A stone pig stye in the pastures of Mohandi</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The evocative settlement of El Hascal about to be engulfed in mist</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many such evocative
settlements dot the area, testament to a hard life, and some are still used,
but most are falling into disrepair. It is the western massif of the Picos de
Europa where there are most of these settlements and coming across them can be
a highlight to a walk in the area.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Farmers hut near Vega Ario on one of the classic walks in the Westen Massif of the Picos de Europa</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goats in Los Bobias</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span>It was in these majadas
that the region's renowned cheeses came into being - Cabrales from the area
around Sotres and Bulnes, Gamoneu from the northern slopes of the Western
Massif, and Picón from Tresviso in the Eastern Massif, to name just three.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Traditional Gamoneu cheese making in the high mountains pasture of Vega Maor</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Goats being milked for cheese in the early morning sun.</span> Los Bobias</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A difficult pass; Paso El Picayo originally used by farmers now used by brave walkers.</span></td></tr>
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Networks of well-built
routes join the majadas to the invernales, villages and homesteads, across cols
and ridges and "sedus" (difficult passes), often achieving traverses which
appear to be unlikely, verging on the impossible. It is feats such as these
that remind us how wise and in tune with the nature of the mountains people
have been, and can be. These routes and settlements, built with local natural
materials and human hands, give a feeling of awe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A farmers stone hut in El Hascal</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sheep grazing above Los Bobias</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span>The people of the Picos de
Europa co-evolved with the landscape during millennia, grazing their livestock,
cutting wood for building and burning, coppicing chestnuts and hazels,
harnessing the power of water to grind their grain, and leaving their mark on
the landscape in many ways, as it left its mark on them. It is this symbiosis
of people and landscape that lends the area its inspirational quality.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Man co-evolving with the landscape Vega La Piedra</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-88704805605683552882013-08-12T10:46:00.001-07:002013-08-12T14:02:35.869-07:00Fruits on the farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Physalis in the early morning sun</span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">About ten years
ago when we first started sourcing as much local and organic produce as possible
for the hotel restaurant we realized there was a problem getting a selection of
good fresh organic fruit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we started
planting a variety of different fruit crops on the farm with the idea that some
day we would be able to supply more fresh fruit for the hotel restaurant ourselves.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here is a pictorial
blog of the fruit on the farm and what we are harvesting at the moment.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Harvested physalis</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We have
been particularly successful with our soft fruit with huge harvests of
raspberries. </span>At the moment we are harvesting Polka an autumn raspberry</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">We are normally cropping raspberries from late May to September and often</span><span style="font-size: small;"> have so many raspberries we serve them for breakfast</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blackberries; we are just coming to the end of our blackberry harvest and last year planted two new varities with the idea of extending the harvesting season</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Strawberries; big harvests but we are in the process of planting new strawberry beds with a more tastier variety Albion</span>. <span style="font-size: small;">The variety we have at the moment Selva has a disappointing flavour</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">About ten years ago we planted ten different cherry trees but there are also some old trees on the farm so we now have a good selection of both red and black cherries. All we need to do is harvest them before the birds do!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer deserts in the restaurante making the most of all our home grown soft fruits</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blackcurrants; we have just finished cropping our blackcurrants but these we mostly freeze and use with meat dishes as well as in parfaits.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are just about to harvest "Nashi" or Asiatic pears, our tree produces huge numbers of fruit, but they are rather small.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the orchard as well as cider apples we planted a few pear trees and some eating apple trees, the fruits of which we will be harvesting from late august onwards.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is how are persimons look at the moment, we always get an abundent harvest but they dont ripen till late November when the hotel is shut!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And finally here is our grape vine which adorns the hotel entrance. It produces masses of bunches of grapes but unfortunately they tend to split and rot before they ripen. This is due to mildew and we just havnt got to grips with organic control of mildew. You cant win them all!</span></td></tr>
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Nigel and Joann Burchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136756734407688189noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329223473428842810.post-2365927077465018552013-07-30T09:24:00.001-07:002013-07-31T04:26:49.633-07:00Another day at the hotel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The hotel Vegetable garden</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Whilst
picking the vegetables this morning our son Seb said to me “we must try and get
a responsible travel award next year” I replied “yes… but they give so much
importance to quantative data” and after a little thought he replied “but just look
what’s going on today,” and that inspired me to write a short blog on what's happened at the hotel today</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was
Joe’s breakfast this morning so she was in the hotel before eight o clock
preparing breakfast. Our home made bread and cakes have to be cut and put out
on the buffet along with local and organic cheeses, yoghurts and marmalades. Then
there is the final check to see if every thing is in place; cold apple juice
made from our apples, organic and fair trade coffee and teas, cereals, nuts,
fruit etc</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During
breakfast its time to check if our guests need any help planning their day,
handing out information on our self guided walks, maps, train time tables etc. Today
a couple of guests went for one of our local walks leaving their car at the
hotel whilst others went further a field in to the mountains and some went for
a swim in the sea.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile I
was out on the farm with Sebastian and Andres, we had cut a Eucalyptus tree and
were splitting the wood and then had the hard job of wheel barrowing it down to
the house and hotel. This wood will keep us warm in the winter. Towards the end of
the morning we picked the fruit and vegetables that needed picking; beans, courgettes, raspberries, beetroot, letuce and then I
started lifting our bumper onion crop to let it finish drying ready for winter
storage.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bumper onion crop this year</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actually this
isn’t just another day at the hotel as Lidia a local ecologically sensitive
artist was preparing her exhibition at mid day in the hotel ready for the
inauguration this evening. We always try and buy our decorative elements from
local artists and it was great for us to be hosting an exhibition from a local
artist.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lidia preparing her art exhibition in the hotel</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mid
afternoon and I took a box of our potatoes down from the cold store to the
kitchen where Samantha and Joe were planning how to use the fruit and
vegetables we had picked for the evening meal. With most of our fruit and
vegetables being grown less than 100m from the kitchen and picked only one hour
before being used I think this sets a new standard for the meaning of fresh and local food!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh and
today is Tuesday so like every Tuesday at about six o clock three small local
organic farmers will be bringing their produce to our old house by the hotel
where members of the consumer group will prepare vegetable boxes for 24 local
families who form part of this Community Supported Agriculture. This is another
initiative we are very proud to be part of.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back at the hotel</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back in the
hotel the smell of the freshly baked bread is filling the air and guests are
mixing with some of the locals who have come to see Lidias art (and I am
writing the blog)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then it
will be time to serve dinners, relax, have a glass of organic wine and think
about another day. And even if we don’t get any more environmental wards its
just nice to do what we do and see so many people enjoying it.</span></div>
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