Here’s a recap of the restaurants he visited and food he ate.

In Madrid he visits Casa Botin… the worlds oldest restaurant. It’s been in business since 1725. Andrew ate a whole roast pig. And I mean whole. He ate the tongue, ears, eyes, brain and to really get disgusting he had to suck on the skull. He also had angulas (baby eels), and baby squid cooked in their own ink.

After a tapas crawl that included pigs ears, bulls tails, blood sausage and tripe, Andrew went on a quest to find bull testicles. After visiting several places he ends up at Mercado de la Paz Market where the “criadillas” (bull’s testicles) are cooked up and eaten.

Next he was off to the Mueso del Jamon (Ham Museum). This is a place I would like. Ham is one of my favorites. And a store with nothing but different quality hams… I’d be in ham heaven. I found it interesting that serrano hams are the everyday hams to Spaniards. It’s the Jamones, that get top billing in Spain at around 8 times the cost of a serrano.

In Barcelona Andrew visited the La Boqueria, Barcelona’s largest and most famous food market. He ate razor clams, fried worms, crickets, and “horchata”, which is a drink made from tigernuts, water and sugar. And believe it or not, Andrew didn’t like it… I was shocked

His final stop was El Bullí, voted by many to be the best restaurant in the world. Andrew sampled many dishes cooked by the restaurants chef Ferran Adria, including nitrogen-cooled sake sorbet with lychee nuts and pine nut meringue. Each patron to this restaurant enjoys a 22 course meal. Wow, my kind of place.

Onto the local food. Hoodia tree rats and a pig look like their on the menu. The next day Andrew samples the roast pork, and the tree rat (no thanks, not for me), which Andrew says is ferociously gamey.

Along with the strange food comes a local martial arts expert. After showing off the ability to bend a steel rod with his throat, balance on a spear, the most amazing thing was being able to drive a nail into a piece of wood with his bare hand.

Next up was the thing most people relate to Cuba. Cigars. The Viñales Valley region of Cuba has some of the richest soil, perfect of growing tobacco. Andrews get a first hand lesson in cutting and organizing tobacco leafs for drying; curing the leafs, rolling and smoking some hand rolled cigars from last years crop.

Checking out a local ritual is another of Andrews regular things. A part of the show I would have to pass on if I was host. This time it’s the Santeria religion. A religion practiced by 1 of 3 Cubans. Getting rubbed with a live pigeon and then spit on with purified water. The pigeon is sacrificed and then everyone is rubbed with flour. What?… no thanks to any of the above. Then its time to sacrifice a rooster and drip the blood all over your head. WTF? What’s the fascination with sacrifice and blood everywhere. Time to skip onto the next thing.

Back to Havana and the Hotel Nacional, where famous movie stars of the past once visited. Then off to Trinidad for some music and dancing.

The last stop is to the beach, the Bay of Pigs and some local islands of the southern coast. With a tour guide and a boat, they go fishing for some spiny rock lobsters on the beautiful reef. After catching a few it’s meal time. They start heading back with a cigar in hand, and the boat motor kicks the bucket. They float around a little while after phoning in for help. A short while later a tour boat passes by and tows them in.

Check out Andrew’s complete travel guide to Cuba.