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Right now we're going to take our first ride on a private jet.
We're going to Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain.
Fired up. Vamanos.
Well we made it to Sevilla, easy flight.
Came down here. Griffin was up front with the pilot partying...
The pilot wasn't partying, but Griffin was pulling out champagne.
I was part partier, part steward.
We got to Sevilla; it's dusk.
What a beautiful city... tons of history,
tons of culture, and very much the polar opposite of San Sebastian.
We're in Alfonso X111 right now,
which is one of the poshest hotels I've ever stepped foot in.
We arrived; we had a bottle of champagne.
There's some nice strawberries and chocolate.
It's pretty romantic. Thank you, Marko.
As you might know Sevilla's famous, very famous for a dance that is known all around the world:
the Macarena.
No, flamenco and also and also flamenco, but also the Macarena.
But we are going to go to our neighborhood called Triana, which is on the other side of the river
And we are going to learn a little bit more about flamenco while having tapas.
We made to Triana, neighborhood across the river from downtown Sevilla,
and we're at this place called La Artesana,
which is an artisan products shop
They've got tons of great olive oil, wines, cheese and jamon.
We're trying the local ham from here.
This is really high-quality ham.
The pigs are raised feeding mostly an acorn diet, which
makes the fat content really healthy, supposedly.
It just tastes delicious.
Just believe it, eat it, and enjoy it.
What are we drinking here, Griffin?
Sherry. Tio Pepe. It's a lighter sherry.
It hasn't been aged for that long, and it's quite delicious.
So now we are across the street in the market,
and there is a really cool spot here.
It's a really tiny theater.
It seats less than 30 people, and we're going to see a live flamenco show.
Not really sure where it comes from.
It definitely has influences from the Roma people who are commonly known as gypsies.
I also has a bit of a Sephardic Jewish influence,
all of which blended together in this wonderful melting pot of a city.
I loved it. It's super cool.
A unique experience for me, a lot of style, a lot of passion.
And the owner at the end of the performance, he came over and
told me that they put the theater here in the market because
people come here every day to get their fruit, their vegetables,
their meat, stuff they need for their bodies, physically.
He wanted to bring something here to the market which people could come and feed their souls with..
a little bit of culture, which is super cool.
So we're wandering the back streets of Triana,
and it's just so cool to see how different
this is by contrast from the Basque Country.
The Basque Country, potentially one of the oldest cultures in the world
largely defined by the lack of influence from other cultures.
Here a melting pot of Jews, Christians, Arabs, gypsies.
Everyone living in one neighborhood producing amazing cultural synergies like flamenco.
This used to be a slum, back in the day.
And then there was this ceramic industry that they learned from the Moors, from the Arabs,
and all these villages around here became ceramic factories,
a trade that really flourished until the 1920s.
Now it's a really cool neighborhood,
and there's a lot of great spots like the one we're going to go right here.
More tapas on the way.
We're drinking a sherry called Oloroso.
Before we had a vino, which is white.
This has got a little bit more alcohol in it.
They're fortified wines so they can survive to England,
kind of like the IPA of wines.
We got a nice spread before us like these little garnishes. They're all vinegar.
We're going to the last bar of the night,
La Antigua Abaceria.
I don't know what Abaceria is,
but I know that Antigua means old.
It's an old one. Let's go inside and check it out.
A lot of people here are really fond of Semana Santa, which is Easter.
There are a lot of processions that are
represented in these pictures, for example.....
these virgins, these christs that we put on floats,
and we walk them around the city to go to the cathedral and back.
It's a pilgrimage.
Okay guys.. so stay tuned because tomorrow we're going to wake up;
we're going to learn how to cook all the secrets of Andalusian food,
and then we're having a very special dinner tomorrow night on an island
not far from here.
Buenos dias, everybody.
Welcome back to Vagabrothers.
Right now we are in Sevilla.
I'm with my buddy, Griffin.
We are going on a food tour, and today we're going to learn about Andalusian cooking.
We're in this awesome hotel the Alfonso X111,
and right inside the hotel is a cooking school.
We're going to go learn some dishes from MIMO. Vamos
Okay, so the first dish that we're preparing is salmorejo
It's kind of like gazpacho, but gazpacho is more of a juice.
It's thinner whereas salmorejo is more of a soup.
You eat it with a spoon.
We're preparing everything right now.
We've got these beautiful anchovies here.
We're going to cook them with an eggplant as well at the same time.
And then we have this lamb that has been cooking at 68 degrees celsius for 18 hours in the sous-vide machine.
This is it. It's got this beautiful herb bath it's in right now,
and it's vacuum sealed.
And then you put it in the sous-vide machine,
which is basically putting in hot water
at constant temperature so that it cooks evenly all the way through.
It's been doing it for 18 hours, so now it's ready to go.
Buonissimo.
So good.
Okay now we're at the plate that I'm the most excited about.
This the lamb dish.
Look at how light the flesh is....
that's because before we got here,
it was soaked in milk overnight- milk and salt-
and that kind of pulls out some of the stronger flavors from the meat.
Lamb is a dish that was cooked a lot by the Moors in Arab influence,
but this is also cooked in pork fat.
We learned last night that they would put pork into a lot of dishes as a way of making sure that
the locals here were catholic and not jewish or muslim,
which was a really big important thing during the Spanish Inquisition,
which the city was kind of at the heart of.
Let's see how this dish tastes because it looks amazing.
Oh wow.
So lunch is done, and unfortunately we have to leave Sevilla... beautiful city... amazing hotel.
But the good news is we're going to Mallorca.
We're going to go stay in an awesome castle and have an excellent dinner tonight to round out the trip.
It's time to catch a plane.
It's a grand finale, final night wrapping up everything with a lovely dinner here in Palma.
We just checked in this beautiful Castillo Hotel Son Vida.
It's an old castle on the hill overlooking Palma de Mallorca,
and now we're going into town for some dinner.
So we'll see you guys in a bit.
Lovely dinner, lovely weekend, super fun trip, bro.
Had a good time. Cheers. Thank you
Dude, I mean I wish Alex were here to enjoy with us,
but we have had a great time.
I think that... Alex, we are partying on in your honor.
Much love to you.
We've been eating great seafood. We've been having fun.
We've been living the luxury lifestyle like I have never lived in my entire life.
Neither have I. I want to say,
"Thank you to the Vagabrothers."
I had a ton of fun and looking forward to more adventures.
Thank you to MIMO for taking us on this trip.. super fun.
Had a great time. Check out their cooking schools.
There's a link below in the info box.
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And Griffin, what do we say at the end of the videos?
Stay curious; keep exploring; be radical and awesome.
I like that, but we'll see you on the road.
Peace.