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...The city’s tablaos are only now coming back to life after being hit hard by more than two years of Covid, with some historic venues, such as Casa Patas, being forced to close for good....
...All of this, followed by flamenco at Casa Patas, makes it a very special city. Casa Patas, Calle Cañizares 10, 28012 (casapatas.com)....
...In Patagonia, we’d driven a thousand miles along the Carretera Austral, the still substantially unpaved road that snakes through the less-visited Aysén region....
...For now, Rafael del Rey of the OEMV says Spanish wine cannot be condemned to the bottom shelf....
...In the early 1980s Pam Dunsford of Chapel Hill in McLaren Vale was regarded as a curiosity, South Australia’s lone woman winemaker and wine judge....
...It’s grown in a sheltered bowl, hence the high alcohol. 60% Petit Courbu, 40% Petit Manseng. 14.5% £19.95, Yapp Bros Suertes del Marqués, Vidonia 2013 Tenerife Stunning value in this super-tangy answer...
...Casa Laguna, Mayakoba, Mexico, $3m Where Part of the Rosewood Mayakoba resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, eight miles from Playa del Carmen and 50 miles from Cancún, where there is an international airport...
...Monte del Duque, Casares, Andalucía, Spain, €40m Where Inland between Marbella and Gibraltar in southern Spain, a 90-minute drive from Málaga airport and 20 minutes from the coast....
...The nearby charcutería, meanwhile, serves sandwiches and rolls stuffed with the finest Catalan butifarra, spiciest Castilian chorizo or, most tantalising, the exquisite pata negra ham....
...“It can never become the next Costa del Sol.” That is exactly the point, Rossler says. “With some cities, a listing is just one of a number of influential factors....
...“You only need to look at the Costa del Sol to see that they learned the hard way.”...
...For a lighter Italian alternative Christmas cake, the best panettone I've tried in recent years comes from Fulham's new Bottega del Sole....
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