Day: August 13, 2008

Campohermoso enters the Guinness Record Book

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Campohermoso has entered the Guinness Book of World Records by making the worlds largest Gazpacho, 4520 litres of the stuff to be exact. It was also “ecological”, which round here often means “not quite as many chemicals as I put on last year”. 200 volunteers helped to make it, and it was served in a very large bowl. José Angel Sierra García, from the Escuela Superior de Hostelería y Turismo de Madrid (Madrid Senior School Continue reading Campohermoso enters the Guinness Record Book→

NO end in sight for El Algarrobico

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After the uproar yesterday about the proposed 100 million euro payment by the Ministry of the Environment to Azata, the owners of El Algarrobico hotel in Carboneras, the Ministry (which, remember, is central government in Madrid, not the Junta de Andalucia, who seems to have washed their hands of the matter) has hastily backtracked. They have announced the the price of 100 million was set some months ago after an independent firm surveyed the installations Continue reading NO end in sight for El Algarrobico→