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Inka Spends a Dreamy Afternoon Chasing Almonds in Alfarnatejo

Foraging for almonds in rural Spain.

Every day I delve into another place.  As I comb through my vast inbox full of travel stories, I go to wherever the story is located.  Today I enjoyed a lunch with enough good wine to make me sleepy rural  Alfarnatejo Spain, where Inka Piegsa-Quischotte took a food tour.  It’s a tiny village of about 340 souls and they broke the tour participants into two groups, so each could savor a meal in a local kitchen.

It’s fun to read stories written by enthusiastic travelers, that’s why I enjoyed reading this story and looking at the photos.  Here is how Inka describes it.  ”

Next to the olive trees grow fields and fields of almonds. It is nearly harvest time and we had great fun, pilfering a few trees, cracking open the almonds on rocks  and rolling our eyes in delight when we got at the sweet kernel. It does make a difference from buying them ready packaged at a supermarket.

Over a mountain pass we went towards our final destination: Alfarnatejo. A tiny white washed village with no more than 381 inhabitants, it’s the smallest village in the south of Spain. The central square is the size of a handkerchief and they don’t even have a policeman.

Having great writers who share their stories is indeed a pleasure.  I’m lucky to have all of this talent in my inbox!
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Tonight after I emerge from my subterranean office, we’ll join a throng over in Amherst for the 2013 Downtown Block Party.  Last year’s event was festive and fun, and we’ll join some relatives with small kids in strollers.

Max Hartshorne

Max Hartshorne has been the editor of the GoNOMAD.com travel website since 2002. Over the past decade, he has had the privilege of working with writers and publishing travel articles about nearly every country in the world. He has also been a consistent world traveler, writing hundreds of his own travel stories and posting daily blogs from the 10 or more yearly international trips he takes around the world.

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