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...Miguel F Lancha, the Spanish-born cocktail director of ThinkFoodGroup, chef José Andrés’s restaurant group in the US, favours Sangria twists that are deliciously high-low....
...The towers were stunningly modern for a country in which architecture had been stuck in a conservative culture (with a few, brilliant exceptions such as Miguel Fisac)....
...But Huascarán — one of 16 peaks over 20,000 feet in the Cordillera Blanca — combines beauty with peril....
...“We have a lot of reasons to be happy, for there to be a change of mood — it is going to be a different landscape,” says Luis Miguel Etchevehere, president of the Rural Society....
...Earlier this year, a Spanish judge ordered the detention of Miguel Blesa, the former head of Caja Madrid, one of the biggest savings banks in Spain before it was folded into the Bankia group....
...On and on climbs the road, twisting like a sheep’s gut, until, after half an hour’s drive, it brings you to the high pass of Peñas Blancas....
...Most of us think of Rioja as being a red wine region but – according to Miguel Angel Gregorio of Finca Allende, the man responsible for Allende 2003, the finest white rioja I have ever tasted – more white...
...For a glimpse of the city’s trendier face, La Viuda Blanca, in the Opera zone north-west of Plaza Mayor, in Calle Campomanes, has fusion cooking and turns into a dance club after midnight....
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