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Spain: Cooking with Rashida
(Options: Day Cooking Classes)
Estepona/Marbella, Spain - 5 nights

Join Rashida for hands-on organic cooking classes at her beach villa in an open kitchen facing the beautiful blue Mediterranean Sea.

Rashida will teach you delicious dishes that are healthy, easy and fun. During your lessons you will learn dishes from Lebanon, France, Spain and North Africa, where Rashida was born, specifically in Algeria.

Rashida has not had formal training but is not an amateur. Her love and passion for cooking will become apparent as she teaches you nutritional and healthy dishes that are also delicious!

Rashida has traveled the world and has lived in Paris, Provence, Geneva, London, Buenos Aires, Mauritius Island, Beirut and finally moved to Marbella, Spain in 1984. She speaks Arabic, French, English and Spanish!

For more than 2 years Rashida is a regular guest on a show called "The Main Ingredients" where she speaks on the healthy Mediterranean cooking and eating and has written articles on the so-called Mediterranean Diet. She also is an advanced Toastmaster speaker giving speeches in clubs and schools.

You will stay in four star accommodations during your stay. The charming hotel is located in the heart of the Old Town of Marbella. The 150 year old house has been fully refurbished and its 4 suites have been decorated with the finest Asian style. Soft music, birds singing, the sound of a fountain and as well the sound of sileance, makes the hotel an oasis of tranquility and peace. From the top terrace guests can relax and enjoy stunning views from the Sierra Blance, Old Town (XIV Century) and Arab Walls (IX Century).

Day One

Transport from the airport to an ancient, charming hotel in the old town.

Time for a rest and a shower followed by a tour in the old town with Mireille (your English & Spanish speaking escort/driver)

Aperitif in a bodega before the Andalucian dinner.

Day Two

You will be met by Rashida at your hotel at 9.30am.

Your first stop will be for a Spanish 'churros and chocolate' in the so charming plaza de los Naranjos (oranges square) not far from the hotel, then to the Marbella fish market (5 minutes walk ) and to Rashia's house (20 minutes by car).

Cooking class at 11:am until 3pm (lunch 1:30pm)

After lunch, your guide Mireille drives guests for a tour to a cute village not too far, then in the famous Puerto Banus by night and to your hotel.

Dinner/tapas (warm tapas) before the Flamenco show which starts at 10:30pm (both places are near the hotel).

Day Three

Ronda whole day excursion (using their mobile brutus, MP3, MP4) - 1 hour drive through beautiful mountains. The village of Ronda is the most beautiful and ancient in Andalucia.

Cortijo/Vineyard visit, 15km outside of Ronda with wine tasting, Iberian ham and Ronda cheeses followed by a lunch in a typical restaurant with local wine.

After lunch, a tour of the village of Ronda.

Back to the hotel around 6/7pm for a rest.

Dinner in a ‘chiringuito’ beach restaurant (walking from the hotel)

Day Four

Cooking class at Rashida's home at 11am

After lunch Mireille will take you for a tour in a famous village called Mijas.

Museum of wine + wine tasting/tapas (as a dinner) then back to your hotel.

You can have a nice promenade to the paseo maritimo, the Marbella town or

sit in a nice bar-coffee-terrace

Day Five

Cooking class at 11am with lunch at 1:30pm

Malaga tour (using their mobile brutus, MP3, MP4) with the Picasso museum, bodega for an aperitif/tapas followed by an early dinner in a restaurant. Malaga is famous for the delicious small fried fish and sweet wine.

Back to the hotel.

From June to mid September, evening cooking class starting at 5pm – aperitif at 8pm in front of the sea, facing Gibraltar. Sometimes you will be able to see Africa with the full moon (which means the Malaga excursion will be in the morning with a lunch in a ‘chiringuito’ beach.)

Day Six : Departure after breakfast and transfer to the airport/train station.

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