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19th December 2022 CORNISH PASTY AT ‘LA OLA FRESCA’ IN VALENCIA
By Helen Westwater As some of you may know, ‘La Ola Fresca’ was born after I surfed into Valencia on a fresh wave! I previously lived on a farm in Cornwall for many years. Apart from surfing, a breathtaking Atlantic coastline and plenty of cider, Cornwall is most famous for the pasty! That’s the ‘Cornish […]
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18th June 2022 ‘FARTONS’ IN VALENCIA! BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
When I arrived in Valencia over 20 years ago, I was not really aware that the language valenciano existed. I remember chortling to myself in a supermarket as I spied a packet of iced buns labelled ‘Fartons’. Worse, later, I even pompously wrote to the organisers of a festival suggesting they change the festival name […]
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10th February 2021 VEGETABLE AND TARKA DAL…BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
It’s never advisable to go trekking unprepared and certainly not in the Himalayas. Nevertheless; many moons ago, setting out from the hilltop station of Darjeeling, myself and two companions in inadequate clothing and flimsy footwear set out over the border to Nepal. After several days of trekking, we found ourselves deep in snow. Cold and […]
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