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

Hate Mildew & Erineum Mite – Love Pallets – From the global aldea Mer (Galicia)

There is never a dull moment here in rural Galicia and the Ribeira Sacra. The diggers have left, the guests have left and it’s back to “normal”. This translates into working on the ever growing list of tasks and trying to fight nature to get a reasonable crops of grapes and veggies of course. I [...]

Wednesday, May 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