San Vino
Pickle yourself in wine!
Where: Haro, La Rioja, Spain. Buses depart San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain. When: June 28th - 29th. How: Plane, train, bus or car to San Sebastian. Cost: 75€. Sleep: Camping accommodation (twin share tent, sleeping mat, sleeping bag). Eat: Hot breakfast everyday and BBQ dinner. Inclusions: Accommodation, meals, massive Stoke campsite party, 'round trip private coach travel, experienced guides, a one of a kind experience. including: Coach transport, dinner, breakfast, camping accommodation, limitless red wine
what do you get: One night (or more) surf camp, round trip transfers to Haro, one night wine fight. In an ancient vineyard, on an even more ancient hill in this anciently ancient part of Spain, on one morning of the year, every year since the beginning of time (more or less) there has been an epic battle. A battle so fierce that the vineyard and surrounding hillsides turn red, so violent that the weary and wounded stumble away from the fighting, covered from head to toe in what seems to be, and indeed is, blood. Blood. Blood from goddamn delicious grapes, my liver swelling friends. This is the wine fight, La Batalla de Vino de Haro, our favourite festival. For a few hours on the 29th of June we take advantage of a bottomless supply of red wine and throw it on each other, on friend and stranger alike. And then, when it's all done, we wipe the wine off us and we head back down the mountain, pickled, as it were, in delicious red wine. But the fight isn't it. The night before the night the wine making village of Haro goes crazy with street parties and bar hopping, dancing and chatting and eating delicious food until the sun comes up - just in time to take part in the wine fight. This festival has yet to be discovered by the hordes of foreigners like some in Spain, and at the moment Stoke Travel is the only travel group that LOVES partying enough to see a wine fight as an essential part of our portfolio. This is just us and the locals, and they are so happy to see us, so interested in who we are and where we come from, that it just really warms our hearts and livers to a state where hardcore partying is the ONLY OPTION! Or combine the Wine Fight with the surf camp. Our buses run from San Sebastian, via the surf camp and onwards to Haro, a journey of about 2.5 hours. Your trip includes: Round trip private coach transfers Camping accommodation Dinner, breakfast and lunch Unlimited red wine, for both drinking and throwing. La Rioja is the numéro uno wine making district of Spain. If you've been lucky enough to find a bottle of La Rioja in your hands you'll know what we're talking about! The battle takes place on a hillside vineyard just outside the village of Haro, which is a 2.5 hour coach trip from San Sebastian, a coach trip fuelled mostly by wine drinking and singing along. You want to fly to either Bilbao, or Biarritz. Check Ryanair, Easyjet and Vueling for cheap deals. There's plenty of cheap deals. We love cheap deals. From Bilbao there are regular buses to San Sebastian, just catch one fool! To get to San Sebastian from Biarritz International Airport take a French SNCF train to Hendaye, change to the nearby Euskotren station (located just outside the SNCF station) and take a Euskotren to San Sebastian. Each train ride is between 30-40 minutes, with the total train trip cost less than €10. A coach service also exists between Biarritz airport and the Hendaye train station, via Saint-Jean-De-Luz (change buses there). The coach ride is less than one hour and costs about €4. You can catch the Spanish national railway from most cities to San Sebastian. Check www.renfe.com for details. You can arrive to San Sebastian by bus from all over Europe and within Spain. Eurolines deal with international bookings (www.eurolines.com) and Vibasa within Spain (www.vibasa.es). The Wine Fight.
An authentic Spanish festival experience!
Basic Trip
starting at 75€ (from San Sebastian)
from Thursday June 28 ’till Friday June 29
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Combine San Vino with the surf camp!
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The town of Haro.
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Our buses leave from between the river and the Maria Cristina Hotel, between the first and second bridges from the sea, at 4pm sharp. Be there or stay dry.
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