Random Bits of Basqueness
Found in the personal care aisle of our local Albertson’s (or Market Street). Goicoechea (Goikoetxea in modern Basque spelling) means the house above.
Found in the personal care aisle of our local Albertson’s (or Market Street). Goicoechea (Goikoetxea in modern Basque spelling) means the house above.
Found in a French-themed restaurant in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan.
Larragoite Park in Santa Fe, NM. There are lots of Basque names around here.
There is a sapling of the Tree of Gernika planted on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The planting was sponsored by Rep. John Garamendi in 2016. It took me a long time to find it, so here is a map for anyone else who wants to find it.
Did you know Zatarain was a Basque name? From Gipuzkoa, meaning either “over the vantage point” or “place where the elder grew.”
I first discovered this beer a few years ago during a trip to Florida, and found it again during our recent vacation….
An old Hagar the Horrible comic I found in the paper. Maybe not all that funny, except for where those arrows in his butt come from…