HeyJaredThe Spain Dispatch
🇪🇸 Join me as I share authentic recipes, stories, and travel guides from across Spain. 🇪🇸 Author of Basque Country & The Book of Pintxos 📘 Host of Rioja Paired 📺 Contributor to Food & Wine, CNT, Lonely Planet and more.
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The Piscina Municipal : A National Treasure (opens the original)
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Summer is officially over. My only regret was how fast it flew by this year, so fast that I was uncharacteristically absent from my absolute favorite Spanish summer place: the piscina municipal. The town pool.Not fancy. Not marketed. Not for anything except cooling down in villages where the coast is too far for comfort.A town pool, you say. Big deal, you say.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6lJw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
{Mini Letter} Something I Love (opens the original)
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I have had the occasion several times over the last month to find myself caught up thinking about a single, perfect dish. Once, on a pintxo hop with friends on a Friday night. Another, tucked away in my home office, writing an article for a big-name magazine. And again, talking to the Hilton team behind San Sebastián’s newest hotel opening.To be honest,… Read more
The Anti-Itinerary: Vibe Traveling (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, I was researching for a big project in the north of Spain. More on that soon. In my travels, I unknowingly stumbled on the most perfect, amazing village…so wonderful and exactly what I wanted that I changed my plans and stayed longer. I may someday talk about that village. But today I am going to talk about how it has shaped where I go when I have some days off.I have definitely moved beyond the must-do checklist style of travel; I think I dabbled in it on my first time in Eur
{Mini Letter} Something I Love (opens the original)
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I’m writing you all from the top of a mountain in Portugal. From its only national park, Peneda-Gerês, covering the north along the border with Spain, with Galicia to be exact. The purpose of this new mini letter, a special bonus monthly remit for paid subscribers, is to talk about something that I’ve recently become obsessed with, or something new-to-me, or something I really love.This park was founded in 1971, stretching across the Viana do Castelo, Braga and Vila Real districts, traversed by
I found a beach inside a meadow (opens the original)
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A recent afternoon, I found myself emerging from a cave, stalactites cathedral-like over my head, and into a meadow. Grassy, like so many are. Unremarkable in its vegetation, just herbal miscellany of greens and browns.The sound of waves washing seemed superimposed over the firmly landlocked scene, like a shoddily edited video. Until I took two steps fu… Read more
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