Basque Club NQ

21/05/2026

10/05/2026

Huevos rancheros, patata bravak, sangria, and North Queensland sunshine! Mil esker to the Men’s cooking group for today’s brunch. A lovely day was enjoyed by friends and family. The perfect way to celebrate our Amarren Eguna Hamarretako.

30/04/2026

Kaixo danori, 

Our annual Mother’s Day brunch will be held on Sunday, the 10th of May.

Doors will open at 9.30 am and brunch will be served at around 10.30 am. The cost is $35 for members and $40 for non members .

To avoid disappointment, please rsvp early to [email protected].

The Men’s Group is delighted to cater for this event and we thank them for their generosity in volunteering their time and cooking expertise. If anybody would like to assist the group (in any capacity) please send an email to the club and we will pass on your message.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

12/04/2026

A perfect Sunday afternoon gathering at the Basque Club.

08/03/2026

The humidity could not dampen anybody’s enthusiasm at today’s lunch. Thank you to Mary, the Burdekin cooks, committee members and volunteers who helped to ensure today’s success. Welcome to Felix who joined us from Euskadi and rekindled his ties to North Queensland. We look forward to a great 2026 at the Basque Club of North Queensland!!

07/02/2026

Welcoming in 2026, with our newest cooking group, Gure Lobak.

Guests were treated to tables laden with rustic flavours, vibrant atmosphere and jugs of ice cold kalimotxo.

The perfect way to spend a North Queensland summer's evening!

02/02/2026

Rsvps have now closed for Saturday's "Pintxo and Kalimotxo" event. Thank you to all who rsvpd - a confimation email has been sent to you.

26/01/2026

PINTXO AND KALIMOTXO EVENING

Kaixo danori,

We invite you to our Pintxo and Kalimotxo evening to be held on SATURDAY, the 7th of February from 6pm to 8 pm.

Come along and support our newest youth cooking group in their debut and join us for some pintxos and kalimotxo before heading out for dinner.

Entry at the door is $20 which includes 5 tickets for 5 pintxos (more tickets can be purchased during the event).

RSVPS are essential - we will advise when all spaces have been filled. Please RSVP to: [email protected]

31/12/2025

Remembering those who are missing,
with friends by our side and those we love close to us!!!!!
Happy New Year

27/12/2025

An interesting read…

Mountaineers in Spain are still speaking a language from the Stone Age that is unrelated to any other voice on Earth.

Basque, or Euskara, is a total mystery to linguists because it does not share a single root with Spanish, French, or German.

It is a language isolate, meaning it has no genetic relationship to any other language family in existence.

While the rest of Europe adopted Indo-European languages about 3,500 years ago, these people stayed put in their mountains and kept their old words.

The Pyrenees mountains acted as a massive natural fortress that stopped outside influences from wiping out their culture.

Romans came and went, bringing Latin with them, but the Basque dialect held its ground in the countryside.

It almost disappeared during the 20th century when General Franco banned the language entirely in Spain between 1939 and 1975.

Families had to whisper their native tongue inside their own homes just to pass it down to their children without getting arrested.

Today, over a million people still speak this living fossil that dates back to the Neolithic period.

Sources: Royal Academy of the Basque Language, BBC History, Smithsonian Magazine