A short break on an Andalucian finca gives an insight into the legendary fruit – harvesting it, classifying it – and cooking with it. Lucy Gilmore writes about GoLearnTo.com’s olive harvest and cooking course for the Observer today.
Spitting and spluttering, I choked up the last fragments of bitter fruit. I had thought that working in [...]
GoLearnTo.com features today in The Independent’s 50 best winter breaks with their fantastic new Spanish cooking and horse riding holiday in Andalucia, Spain.
Cooking and Horse Riding
GoLearnTo.com’s new four-day Andalusian adventure is based at a 150-year-old farmhouse near Lake Iznajar, surrounded by olive and almond groves, and combines cooking lessons with horse riding instruction.
How much [...]
GoLearnTo.com features in the Independent’s roundup of the ‘50 Best Travel Websites’ as Rhiannon Batten sees the world the smart way and recommends GoLearnTo.com as it’s ‘one stop shop’ for activity holidays.
A one-stop shop for tracking down activity holidays, this site lists a vast range of holiday courses according to destination, length, budget and type [...]
The olive harvest is just around the corner once again…I have been asked by my neighbours/friends to help them harvest the green olives again this year. On a night of our village Fiesta a few weeks ago, Maria Angustias grabbed me and asked, “Clive, are feeling strong like a burro (donkey)? If you are, can you [...]
A recent survey by Saga reveals the over 50’s as having a ‘voracious appetite for exploration’. Saga has found that holidays in Latin America and the Caribbean, now attract over three times as many (+321) older travellers as a decade ago.
This trend for adventurous travel is definitely on the rise and why not? Travel opens up [...]
Travolution reports that Travel sector websites have come out on top in a consumer survey to measure the best performers across a range of high profile markets.
The poll of nearly 2,000 web users found that travel and supermarket sites were ahead of other transactional sectors such as banking, electronic retail and property.
The worst performing [...]
With the new Series 6 of Strictly Come Dancing starting next week, GoLearnTo.com is offering all budding dancers the chance to ‘score a perfect 10’ from Len, Bruno, Eileen and even Craig on a holiday dance course.
Experience the fire of Flamenco in Seville, the tempo of Salsa in Malaga, the sexy samba in Brazil or the seduction of [...]
Tripadvisor has surveyed more than 2,500 travelers and determined that 32 percent of travelers are planning to engage in educational activities while on holiday in 2008. This statistic is up 7 percent, from 25 percent last year.
According to TripAdvisor, of those who plan a “learning” holiday, 19 percent plan to attend art classes, 35 percent will [...]
The Daily Mail and a number of other newspapers are running stories on a new report by the Future Foundation commissioned by PurAsia (a food company who have just launched a range of Asian meals) which dubs men who see cooking as a hobby rather than a household chore as ‘Gastrosexuals’.
A spokesperson for PurAsia said: ‘We found that cooking [...]