Donde Esta La Fiesta?

The three day weekend beckons, dear readers, and predictably the sunshine has plans to scarper elsewhere. It'll be about as scorchio as Terry Wogan presenting Eurovision in his underpants, so you might as well scrap those plans to loll around on the common getting slowly shedded on luke warm beer and head to Regent Street this Sunday for A Taste of Spain.

Witness the Sevillanas dance Guinness World Record attempt. Similar to flamenco, sevillanas is a Castillian folk dance hailing from Seville. If you feel yourself coming over all Senor Travolta, you can register online to learn how to dance sevillanas and take part in the record attempt.

If you'd rather stuff your face than make a tit of yourself and your two left feet, nip round the corner to Heddon Street (just off Regent Street) and get stuck into the palate-tingling delights of Spanish cuisine. There's restaurant offers, promotions and special menus to choose from. Forget the ropey paella that had you shouting down God's big white telephone, we're talking tapas, seafood and the finest Riojas. Delicioso.

All that, plus you can pay homage to Spanish director Pedro Almodovar at the Burlington Club, with screenings of his work starting on Sunday and continuing for a fortnight, and at 4pm you can catch Andalucian flamenco stars Cuadro Flamenco Peña de Camarón giving it some Iberian passion.

So dust off your castanets and get a little Espanol in your soul.

Photo courtesy of cesarastudillo's photostream on Flickr.

Written by Ria on 23 May 2008 2:36 PM. Permalink