Hi, thanks for stopping by. Please if you are interesting in reading GringoCool blog posts, you can find them at: https://gringocool.com/blogs/news
For several years I was blogging on WordPress. I published articles about Spanish ceramics, Spanish olive oil, and also pieces about being a small business owner, Spain and traveling in Europe. The blog posts are now all at gringocool.com.
Over this past couple of months, I have been trying to sort out the GringoCool.com online store. I am working with a couple of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts in Canada. One of the first things they told me is that my internet footstep is too dispersed. They encouraged me to centralize my blogging efforts on the GringoCool blog, and not to replicate blog posts on different blog sites, which is what I had been doing. It seems the “spiders” of Google do not like to find the same thing published in two different spots – it lowers a websites confidence/pertinence ranking so to speak.
Just in case you are interested, here the titles and links to some of my most popular blog posts. Again thanks!
General Interest:
- Exploring Italian Ceramics on the Amalfi Coast of Italy
- Sevillan Artist David Noalia – Latest Paintings
- Way of St. James Journal (Camino de Santiago Diario)
- The Horses of Sevilla …….(and don’t forget the mules!)
- Golfing Andalusia – Where up is down, and left bounces off ivy vines covering the old club house
- Seville Beauty Pageant – The April Fair Parade
- How to Survive in the Jungle of Spanish Wines
- Spanish Pata Negra Pigs and Their Bellies (yum, yum)
- Kent’s Odyssey – The Pacific Northwest Trail
Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
- Extra virgin or just some pomice and chemical pretender?
- How do you say “Olive Oil Fraud” in Croatian?
- Battle to be the “World’s Best Extra Virgin Olive Oil” – and why this is misleading.
- 12 Factors that Influence the Quality of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Is Extra Virgin Olive Oil Like Wine?
- Box Store Olive Oil Not Up to Par – Even in Spain!
- Olive Harvesting in Spain – Mechanical VS Hand Picked
- Olive Oil Fraud – A US Court Ruling that Makes Sense but Complicates the Consumer Landscape
- How GringoCool Selects a Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Bottling
Spanish Ceramics & Pottery:
- The technique used for hand painting Spanish tiles
- Tell tale signs of artisan produced, hand painted Spanish pottery
- Plate size – What’s in your Cupboard?
- How pottery is made in Spain – hand thrown, mold pressed and mold poured
- Botijos, Huchas, Jarras, Jarros and Beautiful Ani
- “Spanish Ceramics” made in China
- Talavera de la Reina
High Desert Explorations 