Summer ’s long gone, but our lucky Taste of London competition winner Joanna recently got some extra days of sunshine in the beautiful Andalusian countryside. Joanna chose our unique Spanish cooking weekend as her price (excellent choice!) and couldn’t have been any happier with the hands-on cooking classes set in a 150 year old Finca.
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Tiara and Wedding Jewellery Course
To put an end to any intra-familial disputes over whether Kate wears the Middleton family jewels or something from the Crown Jewels to her wedding ceremony, here at GoLearnTo we’ve come up with the perfect solution: our Tiara making course in France.
On this course Kate would be able to create [...]
A small quantity of olive oil can go a very long way, but when you have a very best quality olive oil, it can go a very long way if you know how to use it correctly.
It is important to choose the right grade of oil as well as quantity for the type of cooking [...]
Every week, The Independent Newspaper invites competing companies to give us their best deal for a specified holiday. Today: a cookery holiday in southern Spain in mid-June. Prices are for two people travelling together.
GoLearnTo
£1,438: Iznájar, Andalucia
Commences 13 June and includes six nights’ half board in a 19th-century finca, 12 hours’ tuition in the kitchen with [...]
A short break on an Andalucian finca gives an insight into the legendary fruit – harvesting it, classifying it – and cooking with it. Lucy Gilmore writes about GoLearnTo.com’s olive harvest and cooking course for the Observer today.
Spitting and spluttering, I choked up the last fragments of bitter fruit. I had thought that working in [...]
GoLearnTo.com features today in The Independent’s 50 best winter breaks with their fantastic new Spanish cooking and horse riding holiday in Andalucia, Spain.
Cooking and Horse Riding
GoLearnTo.com’s new four-day Andalusian adventure is based at a 150-year-old farmhouse near Lake Iznajar, surrounded by olive and almond groves, and combines cooking lessons with horse riding instruction.
How much [...]
Andalucia is the true home of Tapas. The word tapa means lid and it is thought that on a hot day in Andalucia a piece of bread topped with ham or cheese covered a glass of sherry to keep out the flies and started the idea of tapas, ‘eat when you drink and drink when [...]
James Ellis of The Metro newspaper recommends GoLearnTo.com’s Spanish cooking weekend break for ‘foodie mums’ today.
“Jamie, Gordon, Nigella, Marco… she has every cook book going and thinks she could probably write her own. Head to a traditional Finca overlooking the hills of Andalucia for a cooking course. Over a weekend you’ll learn to prepare a [...]
GoLearnTo.com’s Spanish cooking weekend featured in the Sunday Times on the 5th January with a special recommendation for the ‘best value’ weekend in their 52 weekends article.
“Head to olive-oil country for an intensive course in la cocina Andaluz.
Staying at a finca in the village of Los Juncares, on the edge of the Parque Natural de [...]
The city of Granada in Andalucía, Spain was named after the fruit pomegranate and it is the city’s emblem. Less you forget, the Moors planted an avenue of pomegranate trees in the city centre.
Native to Persia, this fashionable fruit with its high levels of antioxidant, vitamins B, C & E is naturally suited to cool [...]
Chef Clive who teaches would-be chefs to cook on our Spanish cooking courses in Andalucía shares his experience of this year’s olive harvest in Spain.
It is not so difficult these days to find some mouth watering table olives prepared in different ways – pickled with herbs and garlic, stuffed with red pepper or anchovies….. but [...]
The olive harvest is just around the corner once again…I have been asked by my neighbours/friends to help them harvest the green olives again this year. On a night of our village Fiesta a few weeks ago, Maria Angustias grabbed me and asked, “Clive, are feeling strong like a burro (donkey)? If you are, can you [...]
Catherine Mack reports on responsible tourism in the Irish Times with a focus on food festivals and cookery courses that use organic ethical ingredients.
GoLearnTo.com’s very own Spanish cookery holiday in Andalucia, Spain set in the heart of the Olive Oil region features. Using all organic meats, fish, vegtables grown in the grounds and high quality olive oil from [...]
Flopping out on a beach for a week not for you?
Dreaming about taking up a new hobby, wishing you could cook, speak French or looking for some adventure as you learn to kite surf or wind surf or do you just want to unleash that creative within?
Then why not use your holiday time to combine leisure [...]