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Born of our love of food and travel, Taste Adventures is a space to share information, tips and stories with like minded folk. We champion independent businesses and buying local, with an overall ethos of sustainable travel and slow food. We are able to support and advise on bespoke holidays, trips and activities in Catalonia and south west Spain (as we have lived and worked in both areas).

We would love you to join us on this journey and we welcome your ideas and suggestions. We thrive on interaction, so please get involved! Feel free to ask us any questions and of course, to share our page and posts with others who may be interested.

We love to discover and support local independent businesses and have compiled a directory of some of our favourites. There are some exciting newbies as well as Bedford stalwarts on the list. Check it out and give us the heads up for any others you think should be included....

Take a look at our Bedford Directory here

We hope you enjoy looking at our website. It is ever evolving as we travel, experience new adventures and meet new people along the way. We will be adding to our blog, our gallery and our social media pages so please do keep checking back. We hope you enjoy this journey with us.

We are Olivia and Brian – hello! You can find more about us here & read about our journey so far..

Keep up to date with our latest travels and tales as well as information and top tips on the places we know well. Read our latest blog entries here.

Taste of a place – Barbate

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A taste of a place

January 21, 2024

Big fans of the Costa de la Luz and its stunning beaches, we have been driving through the small coastal town of Barbate for over 15 years. Usually, hot tailing it to the more internationally popular Zahara de los Atunes, with its wide sandy beaches; a veritable mecca for tuna lovers. However, thi...

Walking the Santiago de Compostela to Muxia camino

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September 3, 2023

After our recent Via Francigena walk in Tuscany we felt we were equipped with more skills and experience. Perhaps we might be able to face something a bit more challenging this time. We needed a route with longer daily distances and I felt we should attempt to carry our bags… So together with ...

“Life on the road” – some lessons learned

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July 30, 2023

We’re just back from our latest Camino trip; walking from Santiago de Compostela to Muxia, on the coast. This is our 4th such walk (in a year and a half – which gives some idea of how much we like our new “hobby”!) We upped the ante a bit this time, by walking longer distance...

A taste of a place – Bologna

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A taste of a place

May 21, 2023

Variously referred to as; “the fat one”, or “the belly of Italy” – Bologna has been firmly on our radar for a while… Events over the previous couple of years have thwarted our attempts to get there, but finally our opportunity arose at the end of our Via Francigen...

A taste of a place – Tuscany

by lovetasteadventures

A taste of a place

May 21, 2023

We recently spent just over a week in what is a veritable paradise for pizza and pasta lovers such as ourselves. We trekked from Lucca to Siena on the Via Francigena walking route, seeking good local and seasonal food in the trattorias of Tuscany along the way. And we were walking. So we were hungry...

Walking the Via Francigena

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A taste of a place

May 2, 2023

This is a post about our Via Francigena; why and how we did it. Of course, everyone has different reasons for embarking on such an endeavour, different timescales, budgets, abilities etc, etc (never mind, hopes and aspirations!) We, in no way purport to be experts, just keen walkers (with limited ti...

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