Spain is a country that has insanely good food almost everywhere you go, and to crown an establishment (not only by me, but by every food critic in the Iberian Peninsular) as the best seafood restaurant is a royal feat. It has to boast not only the best cooking but also the best ingredients, and it is not a title born out of snap judgment. Welcome to Restaurante d'Berto.
d'Berto would probably win the title of the most obscure fine dining location - in O Grove, Galicia, Northwest Spain, no less. I first met Berto months before I visited his restaurant,
Editorial Boileau, or affectionately known simply as Boileau, has been and is still one of the most well-known and important music publishers in the world. Based in Barcelona, it champions the publishing of Spanish music over the last 100 years.
Pianists and musicians will not be foreign to its books with the signature light beige cover. It is also one of the most easily readable and durable scores I have come across. I have amassed a collection of its earlier publications as well as newer ones. This past July, as an incentive to some
Right outside of Barcelona are three Cistercian monasteries that form a well-trodden pilgrimage route called the Cistercian Triangle. The three monasteries, Santes Creus, Poblet, and Vallbona de les Monges are each planted in remote small towns steeply rooted in history and agricultural excellence. While visiting Vallbona de les Monges, a town of less than 400 inhabitants, I stumbled across an interesting workshop across from the monastery.
Situated on the "main" road that looked to have been dug and paved in the Middle Ages, the high wall of the monastery
