Galicia life and experiences as seen from Mer near Sober

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Kitchen upgrade for verano en rural Galicia

The chef was wanting a decent oven. “I can’t properly regulate the temperature and anyway the oven is too small…..” As I like to eat, who am I to argue? We went to local and not so local “tiendas de concina” but even in the catalogues nothing was inspiring. It is slightly complicated by the [...]

Monday, July 26th, 2010

National press – A stone & the difference some years make

Two weeks ago we made it into the national press. El Pais,  a bit like the Times, featured an article about us in their Saturday edition. De la aldea rural a la global  Translated it would be the global little village. Xurxo, who is a well known photographer and journalist visited us one Saturday and [...]

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

The quiet life in rural Galicia – I wish!

OK,Ok, I know. No blog for a long time and I’m sorry about this. To think that there is a quiet life in rural Galicia, just sitting back, let it rain and sip the excellent wines of the Ribeira Sacra, at least for us, couldn’t be farther from reality. Amongst a lot of other tasks [...]

Friday, May 14th, 2010