“The Splendour of a 16th Century City” the promotions proclaim and it truly is! For a few days each year at the end of July the City of Tortosa is transformed as it recalls its past in a Festival that has been accredited as a “Festival of National Tourist Interest” …
Let’s get right to the point:- in my Catalan/English dictionary “Caga” is translated as “shit” and “El Caganer” is translated as “the shitter”. As you’ll see that’s not at all offensive to the Catalans but as those words may sound offensive to some let’s settle on the words “poop” and …
Health & Safety eat your heart out! In Britain they would collapse under the weight of Risk Assessments before they finally decided to ban it!…… ……It was our first Fiesta Mayor in Catalonia. 10 days of party and entertainment and tonight there was to be something called a “Correfoc”. We …
When you come to live in Catalonia, one thing you soon notice is the universal celebration of food! There are fiestas dedicated to cherries, peaches, rice, wine, artichokes (I kid you not!) oysters, oranges – in fact virtually anything that is grown and harvested! During the winter months there is …