Galicia life and experiences as seen from Mer near Sober

Archive for August, 2007

The stork has landed

Do storks really deliver children?
Here in Galicia, or at least in the vicinity of Monforte, they are plentiful. It is a fantastic view to see them gracefully fly. We are delighted that they stop by and at least inspect our land.
So I have no idea if they do deliver children. The ones that pass by […]

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

take time out - just build a private beach

Hola,
renovating can be fun. If, like me, you have plenty of material amongst which is a ton of sand why not have some fun with it.
So instead of taking my daily bath in the wild, once we managed to clear the yard even further, it was time for a change.
Ortego, our friendly building and […]

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Adapting to Spanish time lines

Well, when we arrived here we said -”oh we’ll never be able to have dinner - 10pm is just too late ” -.
Forward six month and ……..
Time of writing this is 8:30pm and we have just finished working. We also had a leisurely siesta.
NOW we’re going to hit the town. It’s a week long fiesta in […]

Friday, August 10th, 2007