Travel with Angela Lansbury: Spanish Food and Drink Museums, Souvenirs

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Spanish Food and Drink Museums, Souvenirs

Spanish food, including some containing sherry, from Camino in London. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

A sherry tasting was held at the Spanish embassy.

Afterwards we had Spanish canapes, including dark, thinly sliced Iberian ham.

But my Spanish favourites were the tiny brick-shaped yellow, egg tortillas. Filling and satisfying.

The canapes were prepared by a company called Camino. If the name rings a bell, maybe you have in mind the Camino Real (Pilgrim's Way) in Spain, the pilgrimage route. Camino in Spanish means path, pathway or route.

I looked at the Camino menu online and they have sherry in lots of dishes, the ham, and in peppery sauce.

Sources of Sherry

Where can you buy sherry? Everywhere,

We buy from the Wine Society which cost only about £40 a year to join and will deliver as little as one bottle for free. Their sherry bottles range in price from under ten pounds for a half or full bottle, to over £100.

You could hold your own sherry tasting, buying two or three dry sherries, and two or three sweet ones, including the ultra-sweet Pedro Ximenez.

You can also buy sherry vinegar in Waitrose supermarket.

SHERRY SOUVENIRS

Tee-shirts with the word Sherry

Tee shirts sold on line include,

1 Christmas tee shirts with the message,

GET MERRY WITH A SHERRY

Long sleeved, various colours including black, burgundy called maroon, pink and more.

From Baby Originals Ltd on Ebay.

£18.99, postage £2.99.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n8cAAOSwGqFlCa3Q/s-l1600.webp

A short sleeved version is £9.99, eg in red, plus 1.99 postage.

2 2 I love SHERRY

34.55 plus postage.

On Zazzle you can have a design created by somebody else or yourself printed on products including: invitations, mugs, key rings, paper plates, fans, cushions, caps, aprons, bottle openers, pens and tote bags.

3 Sherry, Sherry, Sherry, tee-shirt on Ebay from Tees on tap.

£15.99 plus postage. Short sleeved. Black. Multi colour wording.

4 FULL OF CHRISTMAS CHEER A.K.A. SHERRY

£10.99, plus £1.95 royal mail postage in UK.

Short sleeved. Black, red, navy or royal blue.

Sherry Glasses

You can buy sherry glasses from department stores such as John Lews (on sale in in summer July 2026).

Visits to Jerez

And where can you visit a place for a tasting in Spain? Jerez, of course. But do book, They may be busy with harvest, or want to fix a day and time when they can call in somebody fluent in English. If you are a large group, they may want to give you a private tour separate from another large group. But if you are just a couple, they may want to add you to another English speaking group calling earlier or later that day.