Donibane Lohizune, Lapurdi. “Whoever enters this place knows what you are supporting,” Adelaide Darraspe told Basque weekly Argia, founder of the artisan establishment and tea salon Martxuka, situated in front of the train station in Donibane Lohizune in Lapurdi. Originally, from Urruña, Adelaide began this project in her hometown. Before that, she lived in Quebec, where she was one more Basque of the Diaspora, being president of the Quebec Euskal Etxea Euskaldunak of Montreal and participating as a delegate at the Basque World Congress, where she was elected as one of the representatives of the Diaspora on the Lehendakari’s advisory board.
Loved called her back to her native Lapurdi and today, in the midst of a pandemic, she is fighting to move forward with Martxuka. Although she does not stop. While in North America twe saw her serving as a model in New York for the hair sculptor, Cristpher Pavia, also from Lapurdi; this year she played the role of the Basque goddess Mari in the film Atarrabi et Mikelats by Eugene Green. Journalist Aitziber Zapirain talks to her in this interview published in Argia.
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