4x4 Plans

Our plan of the week is a trip by 4x4 vehicle. There are many places which deserve to be enjoyed aboard a 4x4, and although we would like to bring you a summary with all the routes to have fun, we can not list all of them, and therefore here there are a small selection of fire, ice, desert and jungle destinations. Here's our list of recommended:

1. Route along volcanoes in Fuerteventura - Spain;

2. Kola Peninsula - Russia during the snow season;

3. Desert of Morocco; and

4. Jungle of Costa Rica.

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4x4 Routes

This week we recommend you a unique and very fun experience: 4x4 routes. If you like nature and adventure sports, we encourage you to explore breathtaking landscapes with your own 4x4 vehicle or with a group arranged by your travel agency.

The main tips of this plan are: respect the nature, plan very well the route- if you and your friends go alone, there are many forums about routes that you can read, be adventurous and eager to have fun.

If this is the first time you carry out a route of this type, the best that you can do is to  use internet to inform you, e.g. in a forum where you will get recommendations and easy routes near where you live, and some tips for each route, for example, what is the best season to do it?, or even when a route is not passable?. Will also provide driving directions and warnings.

Basic Lessons are:

1. Arrange the route well in advance, and read opinions from people who have already made that route;
2. Check the weather;
3. Make ready your vehicle before the route;
4. Take a GPS;
5. Keep the radio or mobile with enough battery;
6. Comfortable clothing and shoes;
7. Some food and water;
8. Carry a small first aid kit;
9. Travel solely for paths, respecting the private property and avoiding, whenever possible, cross rivers;
10. Drive slowly without making noise;
11. And of course, enjoy the most the nature, people and traditions that you will know.

And to encourage you even more here we leave you some photos of our last 4x4 routes

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Enjoy the fall

This week we posted recommendations to enjoy the autumn. 

Following the links to all those posts:

Five plans to enjoy the autumn

Decor in the fall 

Grapes sorbet 

Chestnut cream with chocolate

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       


  

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Autumn dessert - Chestnut cream with chocolate

If you want to surprise with a great and very easy to prepare dessert, in Autumn we recommend you a chestnut cream with chocolate and caramel.

·   To make the chocolate sheets:

Melt some squares of covering chocolate with a small jet of milk. Once melted, layer it on tracing paper with the shape that you like (we've decided squares), and put them immediately in the refrigerator. Let it cool a few hours.

·   To prepare the chestnut cream you need: chestnuts, milk, sugar, vanilla (or failing that sugar flavoured with vanilla) and salt:

Depending on the portions you want, estimate the same grams of chestnuts than millilitres of milk, a little less than a half of sugar, a pinch of salt and a half of a vanilla pod.

For example, for 500 gr. of chestnuts, you need 500ml of milk, 200 gr. of sugar, salt and vanilla. Add more or less milk to achieve a more or less dense texture.

Take all the ingredients in a saucepan, boil until the chestnuts are tender (when the chestnut can be easily crushed).

Then remove the vanilla pod, and blend the mixture up to achieve a smooth cream.

If you always go in a hurry, you can buy the chestnut cream, it is sold all the year.

·  Finally, prepare caramel and make small decorations to complete the dessert.

Be careful when you prepare the caramel as it gets very hot.

Now only remains to stack the tiers with the chocolate sheets and the chestnut cream.

Enjoy it!

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Grapes sorbet

It's harvest time and we have been lucky enough to receive several generous bunches of freshly muscatel grapes harvested at Santa Cruz de la Zarza, gift of a great couple of friends.

With those, we prepared a sweet grapes sorbet, which we made as follows: the grapes are peeled, the seeds removed, and finally those are mixed with syrup.

·  To make the syrup, you need: grape juice, lemon juice, water and sugar.

In a saucepan add a litter of grape juice, 150 g sugar, juice of a lemon and a ¼ litter of water. Boil it up to achieve a syrup (about 8 minutes).

·  To make the mixture: In a blender, grind a couple of bunches of grapes peeled and seeded with the syrup. Then put it in a sorbet machine or in the freezer. After a few hours we will have a creamy blend that we can serve in sherbet or champagne glasses.

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Autumn decor

Upgrade your home decor and dress it with the colours of Autumn. Evolve toward reddish tones, seasonal mushrooms and romantic forests.

Then we leave our proposal to give an autumnal touch to your home.

To make the set we used a couple of branches of red and green leaves of a Liquidambar, which we incorporate into a pot for bonsais.

Then we included several types of mushrooms, and finally added small aromatic leaves and flowers of different colours, ranging from brown to orange, spread on the whole base.

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Autumn - One season and five plans

We are right in the fall season, and the red and ochre colours fill the streets, and even houses, because it's time to start lighting the fireplaces, softly, not to heat the home, but only because we feel like it, because we are in Autumn and we enjoy those romantic and warm orange tones that only fire of fireplaces or candles is able to provide.

This is definitely one of our favourite seasons, when it is not still too cold in the streets and you can still enjoy fantastic walks outdoors. So we recommend you to go out to enjoy some route through small towns that you have near your town, “armed” with your camera on hand. Discover incredible colours that will give you the feeling of being in a completely different place where you had been in another season.

There are many things you can do there:

1.- Go to gather mushrooms. If you do not know how to discern which are edible and which are not, you can use them to decorate your home and enjoy mushrooms in a restaurant of the area.

2.- Use the chance to buy directly to the farmers seasonal fruits and vegetables, such as pumpkins, grapes, chestnuts, spinach or broccoli.

3.- Enjoy the grape harvest and other wine festivals.

4.- Go cycling the paths fully covered with brown leaves.

5.- Spend the afternoon gazing at the pleasant landscapes that nature offers us.

Nice Autumn!

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