Smoke on the roof - Don’t be alarmed - It’s normal in Galicia
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Feliz ano nuebo - Happy new year - Frohes neues Jahr
Finally the rains have come, with a vengeance. It’s cool and wet but when the sun peaks through all is forgiven.
Having had matanzas all over the place - yes here it is still custom to kill pigs at home - one now sees a lot of blue smoke coming out of roofs. We where somewhat alarmed until a kind neighbour revealed the source.
Smoking of all the hams and sausages is very often sill done by having a chamber next to the kitchen with some stones on the floor where a smouldering fire is lit. Above this one finds row upon row of chorizo, hams, pancheta and other goodies being slowly smoked.
So driving along, slightly smoldering barns or houses are no issue to worry about - at least this time of the year.
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- The fiesta is not essesarily on a weekend or at least 3 days
- DIY - A more stable water supply - Coping with summer demand
- Barefoot in the former kingdom of Galicia
- Two weeks no car - no problem living near Sober
- Dinner - directly from the garden - most of it
- Las Medulas - Roman gold mining - Near Ponferrada
- Water & Mosquito larvae - natural remedy Thuringiensis Israelensis
- De fin de courso - A concert by the kid’s of Sober
- Oficially @ 1:59 am summer starts in Galicia and thus in the northern hemisphere
