My tour guide mentioned this ice cream shop during the walking tour and he said the size of their…read morecones are so big that usually it's just fun to see how people manage to eat one cone without dripping or getting it all over their clothes.... I had to try it. I went to get a small cone and I was given one tasting before choosing. I was also told that even the small cone allows for two flavors to be blended together...so I chose strawberry and Tutti Frutti. Both were delicious and refreshing. It was hard to lick the entire ice cream cone without dripping it on me, but it was a great challenge. There are dozens of Regma stands all over the city, so you will be able to try these great tasting ice creams from any corner of Santander.

Although frozen yogurt is the trendy and fashionable thing in Spain at the moment, I am still very…read moremuch an ice cream kind of girl. As a child, torrone was always one of my favorite Christmas sweets. I would eat it until I was so hyper from all of the sugar and couldn't fit another piece into my stomach. I used to get so excited whenever my dad would bring a box home from one of the stores in the neighborhood that specialized in Italian products. It was always one basic kind: a white, soft, chewy nougat with almonds. On my first trip to Spain, I was amazed at how many different types of turron there are - chocolate, yema tostada, and even with coconut, just to name a few. Even better, it didn't have to be Christmas to satisfy my love for turron: the Jijona variety (a very soft turron, basically made from ground-up almonds and honey) is available year-round as an ice cream flavor! La Polar makes turron ice cream just the way I love it - with little bits of the turron itself in the ice cream. It provides such great texture and little bursts of honey that the regular turron ice cream lacks. The chocolate ice cream has a very rich flavor, not only because La Polar probably uses cream that has a week's serving of fat in it, but because the chocolate is very heavy on the cocoa. The service is friendly and the prices are about average for ice cream shops in Santander - around 2 euro for a regular cone. In case you aren't able to visit the La Polar storefront, they have an official ice cream truck that is usually parked in front of the entrance of Playa de Los Peligros.