Galicia life and experiences as seen from Mer near Sober

Archive for March, 2009

La Fiesta en Mer – Just some neighbours – Solo vecinos?

Hola, We are lucky to have a small privately owned chapel in the village. During the year this chapel is just standing unobtrusively beside the road. For this weekend the neighbours organsied a fiesta  including the “airing” of the local saint as well as a mass in the chapel. We where told it’s just for [...]

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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A holiday – A fiesta – Spring – anything else?

The last two weeks we had early spring or English summer. Still a cool 0C (32F) at night, during the day the thermometer easily hit 25C. Thus we where gardening like mad. Spring officially starting about now has come very early and in full force. Potatoes to plant, the first olives for a future groove to [...]

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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