As written before feiras (ferias in castellan) and fiestas not necessarily are on weekends. Our local Feira da Rosca is dove tailed on the first market day in August. This, in Sober is the 12th.
Normally Sober is on the quiet side. August sees nearly all houses inhabited as lots of Galiciens come home for the […]
Again we have fallen for the trap that one sort of automatically assumes a fiesta is on a weekend. Like I’ve written before, time is a slightly different concept here. It is therefore very important to memorise the names of the days not the numerals.
So Sobers fiesta de Rosca is on Lunes (12 de Augusto). Although […]
Finally I came round to address the water supply for our houses and the garden. We have a powerful pump - submerged (it’s much quieter than the above ground) and had small expansion vessel (Calderin) fitted of about 25Liter.
Well, water can’t be compressed but be put under pressure. So as soon as one opens a tap, […]
