Galicia life and experiences as seen from Mer near Sober

Archive for July, 2008

Barefoot in the former kingdom of Galicia

Summer and the living is easy. Traipsing barefoot through our wine laden gardens in the formerkingdom of Galicia, here is a quick glimpse back in time.
Wikipedia shows a very concise article about Galicia specifically its time as a kingdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia
So the kingdom existed on and off from 410 - 1833. The first where Germanic speaking Suebi.
These […]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Two weeks no car - no problem living near Sober

Just got a call from our friendly garage in Monforte. Salvatore speaks German and has worked in Germany for a long time.
So we have some new vents and a brand new cylinder block as the old one was a bit burned out. This may be due to us driving on 3.5 cylinders for quite a while…….
It’s […]

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Dinner - directly from the garden - most of it

These are our first forays into vegetable gardening. Having cleared, with help from friends, an area of about 10×10(feet) this was covered with black foil until this spring.
With seeds we bought and lots more we where given by our neighbors we started. Salad from seed and small plants did rather well until it got to […]

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008