In 2022, I spent over a week walking through Galicia as I took part in the Camino de Santiago. Every day was a new experience with local flavor in a different town. While I had been to Galicia (and other places where tapas are part of the local culture) before, that week gave me a true feel for what...

One of the last in a long line of Basque sheep ranchers whose flocks once ranged over northern Nevada, Ted Borda grows wistful as he recalls the exhilarating scent of sagebrush and sheep wool at shearing time. He waxes lyrical as he looks out over a wide area of land sparsely populated by sheep and encircled...

Several Basques are battling for glory with their teams in the 2022 World Cup, including two brothers playing for different countries. Coach Didier Deschamps, who has led the French squad for a decade, is one of only three men to have won the World Cup as a player and a manager. At least four Basques...

A ancient Basque word -- the oldest evidence of the written Basque language -- has been discovered on a bronze hand known as "the hand of Irulegi" from a 2,000-year-old settlement in the Irulegi archeological site near Iruñea (Pamplona). It has been identified as the Basque word "sorioneko" or "of good...

I just spent an amazing month at the Basque immersion school Maizpide, in the small town of Lazkao in Gipuzkoa, Spain. Learning Euskara (the Basque language) had been a dream of mine since I was young and I heard the language spoken by my father, who grew up in the French-Basque town of Aldude. Maizpide...