Papas antiguas | El País
May 2024
New feature for Spanish newspaper El País. A deep exploration of one of Canary Islands’ gastronomic treasures, papas antiguas. Read story here.
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May 2024
New feature for Spanish newspaper El País. A deep exploration of one of Canary Islands’ gastronomic treasures, papas antiguas. Read story here.
April 2024
New work for El País newspaper, featuring a selection of classic and new restaurants to enjoy a meal near London’s most visited museums. You can read it (in Spanish) here.
April 2024
Three new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler. Published in the last couple of months.
March 2024
New story for Punch magazine, featuring the combinación, one of those historic cocktails that it’s making a comeback in Madrid. With massive thanks to Diego Cabrera, of Viva Madrid fame, who was kind enough to share his recipe with us. Read full story here.
January 2024
Three new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler.
A restaurant review, A Maceta, a wonderful restaurant in Santiago de Compostela
Eight food treats to bring back from Galicia
October 2023
Two new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler, one features the exhibitions to visit in London this autumn, and another one about an amazing new restaurant, Mountain.
June 2023
New work about one Spain’s best bakeries: Brulée. For Condé Nast Traveler Spain, read here.
May 2023
I wrote two new stories for Condé Nast Traveler Spain recently.
One is a guide to the Bloomsbury neighbourhood, and the other, trip ideas to explore London with kids as Londoners, not tourists.
February 2023
The tale of a visit to Cuernocabra, a wonderful restaurant in Gran Canaria, for Condé Nast Traveler Spain. Link here.
January 2023
A visit to wonderful El Sargo Carbón, a nice street food joint in Tenerife, for Condé Nast Traveler Spain. Link here.
July 2022
A road trip with a focus on British cheese, see here.
October 2021
New writing work (available both in Spanish and English) for Spanish Wine Lover, featuring how Brexit has become a big issue for Spanish wine importers and producers. You can read it here.
April 2021
New work on London’s School Streets and how the initiative is reducing toxic air pollution. Work for Spain’s national newspaper El Diario and environmental magazine Ballena Blanca. See link here.
March 2021
New work on London’s Greenground Map. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
March 2021
New work profiling Coventry as City of Culture 2021. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
February 2021
Five walks to enjoy the beauty of the Asturian outdoors in winter. The story appeared in the digital front page. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
February 2021
A feature about the self-proclaimed first zero waste restaurant in London. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
January 2021
The almond trees, one of the crops that dominated the rural landscapes of some Canarian islands before tourism took over, put on a show at this time of the year. Read full story (in Spanish) here.
November 2020
Earlier this year I had the chance to spend over two months back home in Asturias. It was a unique opportunity to rediscover my homeland with time on my hands.
A photo essay has now been published in The New York Times. Read full story here.
August 2020
Last year, fascinated by the superb beauty and incredible history of Lanzarote’s vineyards, I visited the island once again independently, to document harvest.
“Situated some 80 miles off the southwest coast of Morocco, Lanzarote — with its stunning coastline, desert-like climate and plethora of volcanoes — is the easternmost of Spain’s Canary Islands. Major volcanic activity between 1730 and 1736, and again in 1824, indelibly altered the island’s landscape and helped pave the way for an improbable sight: a vast expanse of otherworldly vineyards.
In recent years, Spain has devoted more land to vines than any other country in the world. And while the Canary Islands, more broadly, have a longstanding wine tradition — the archipelago’s wines, for example, were mentioned in several of Shakespeare’s plays — nothing could prepare me for the uniqueness of Lanzarote’s vines”.
A photo essay has now been published in The New York Times. Read full story here.