Vegan Dishes in Spanish CuisineI bet you’ve heard it all before. “YOU want to go to SPAIN?! Don’t even think about it! The Spaniards think tuna is a vegetable!” All too often, vegetarians and vegans are made to think that they will be scorned as complete outcasts the minute they step foot…
Guest post by Dorian Christian. Given Spain’s well-known love for jamón, visitors to Barcelona are often surprised to find out just how vegan Barcelona really is. The local city government even declared itself to be a “friend of vegan and vegetarian culture”, making Barcelona the first official veggie-friendly city in the world. In…
Your Guide to the Best Madrid Vegan TapasEven though Spaniards have a reputation for adding ham to everything, Spain is more vegan-friendly than most people realize. Nowhere is this truer than in Madrid, where it seems like a new vegan restaurant opens practically every week. With so many options, vegan visitors…
Vegan Churros FAQ: All Your Questions AnsweredHow hard is it to find vegan churros? Much easier than you might think! But first things first. Let’s start by explaining what a churro is, then we’ll find out if it’s vegetarian or vegan.What is a churro?Churros are long sticks of fried dough…
Your Travel Guide to Plasencia SpainPlasencia Spain HistoryNowadays, Plasencia Spain is a quiet, largely forgotten town in the Extremadura region of Western Spain. In the 15th century, though, it lay in a strategic location along the Silver Route, or Ruta de la Plata. For this reason, Plasencia was THE place to…
Our guest post today is from Marie Concilus. Marie is a young vegan blogger and adventurer who’s here to share her experience on a weekend getaway to Ibiza. Just for the record, Ibiza does have a number of fully vegetarian and even fully vegan restaurants. There’s Simbiosis, Honestbar Ibiza, and the…
After 39 days of walking across Spain on the medieval pilgrimage route known as the Camino de Santiago, I’m here to tell you that being vegan on the Camino de Santiago is a lot easier than you might think. When I searched for information about vegan food on the Camino de Santiago…
Hip hip hooray, it’s World Tapas Day! These small, appetizer-sized dishes are not only a quintessential part of Spanish cuisine and culture, they are also a vegan traveller’s best friend. Now, travelling in Spain is actually not nearly as difficult as most people imagine. There are, in fact, quite a few naturally…
The word is out that Madrid and Barcelona have recently become vegan hotspots in Europe. Earlier this year, Barcelona even declared itself to be a “veg-friendly city” and a “friend of vegan and vegetarian culture”. But what about Spain’s smaller, less touristy cities? Outside of the country’s major metropolitan areas, most…
Join me on a vegan tapas crawl around the El Tubo area of Zaragoza, Spain. This part of the old city is a maze of narrow, winding streets that are famous for being filled with tapas bars! You may not think of Spain as a very vegan-friendly country, but there…
Hi, I'm Wendy. I'm an intrepid traveler, vegan foodie and animal lover. I travel all over the world (117 countries and counting!) uncovering vegan treasures to show you how you can be vegan anywhere. Read more on my About page.
