Just when you think it’s all over and you can start to wind down for the Autumn, along comes another fiesta! This time, it is the Santa Tecla in Tarragona, which year runs for 10 or 11 days from mid September until 24th! The Santa Tecla has all you could …
I remember the first time that we bumped into a giant! It was on one of our early trips over here just after we’d bought our house in Mora d’Ebre. We’d called into a neighbouring town and 20 minutes later when we wanted to leave, we couldn’t find our way …
“The Splendour of a 16th Century City” the promotions proclaim and it truly is! Each year, for 4 days towards 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 …