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Google Maps for Business
This article is inspired by the world-wide success of the application, Google Maps. Since its launch in 2005, approaching its 20th Anniversary on the 8th of February, Google Maps has turned out to be one of its most successful of all time with over a billion active monthly users and over 10 billion APP downloads…
My Wonderful Trip to Casa Rosalía for Castañeda Boutique Hotels
On behalf of Castañeda Boutique Hotels I was fortunate to be invited by Oleg Lazovski together with a fantastic group of Spanish,travel and gastronomic experts, for a 3 night stay at Casa Rosalía. It was off-season, in a quiet January in Brión, Galicia just after Three Kings Day. Castañeda Boutique Hotels is a recently formed entity…
Ribeiro: the First Wine that Christopher Columbus Brought to America
The Blog Post is my English translation of an article written by the top Galician storyteller and writer, Iván Fernández Amil, who kindly decided to help me with my research into the history of Ribeiro wine and by giving his permission to publish it. I have always been fascinated with the history and its importance…
The Ancient Exportation of Ribeiro Wine (“Ribadavia”) to Great Britain
This Blog Post is dedicated to an article written by local historian Clodio González Pérez from the Royal Galician Academy whom I recently met at the 2021 Ribeiro Wine Festival as the article is based on his talk. I have always been fascinated with the history of the wine producing area of Ribeiro and the…
Interview with Guilherme Ribeiro about my Life on the Camino de Santiago
1 – Why do you love the Camino so much and love promoting the Camino? I love walking. Since I was young I used to go on long circular walks in the English countryside usually ending in a Public House for lunch. So I was easily drawn to the Camino with so much walking involved.…
The Gastronomy of Galicia ending in Lalin
My first post for my new business English Resource Centre has to be on gastronomy. I live in Galicia in north-western Spain which has over 1300 km of coastline with a series of inlets rich in bio-diversity, over a 1000 rivers and is generally undulating and mountainous too ! An agricultural region with so much…
