I have to admit, the first time I visited the Delta I was uninspired. I love mountains, so at first I found the flat landscape quite featureless and boring! Now? I love it! I love it for being different. For the wonderful seasonal changes. And of course for the fabulous …
Hitting the news yesterday was the story about Tesco introducing a shoppers dress code in a supermarket near Cardiff. Apparently it has become the trend to wear pyjamas -outdoors- during the day! Living in Spain we have missed out (if that’s the right term!) on this development. But it did …
It is a question I get asked very often when I tell people where I live in Spain. Even anglers, who are normally the ones to at least have heard of it are often not sure where this major river is. Well, the easiest way to locate it is to …
Just like the UK and Northern Europe we have had some very extraordinary weather in Spain lately. Weather statistics show record high temperatures, record low temperatures and record rainfall for this period in various parts of Spain. In our area, early December temperatures were still reaching 22°C and we were …
No sooner have the “Bon Nadal” greetings and decorations been taken down there is yet another Saint’s day. January 17th is the Festa Sant Antoni -the Catholic patron saint of domestic animals. The religious story relates that Antoni lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert where he underwent many …