No, I’m not sorry. I know, yet another fiesta and please hold on tight next week is semana Santa! Yes, you guessed correctly, another range of fiestas and processions. I heard a very good idiom the other day in German – Ihr habt die Uhren, wir haben die Zeit! – which is translated – You [...]
Normally Mer is a sleepy village where one encounters the odd tractor and twice daily the “hora punto de vacas” (rush hour of the cows). BUT San Jose or St. Josephs day is yet another story. The tenth century saw the introduction of a feast day, usually on the 19th of March. The actual day of [...]
Finally we have come round to officially register the Casa de Flores in the provincia of Lugo as a casa vacacional in the Ribeira Sacra. Considering the usual bureaucracy it is a reasonable painless process. It costs Euro 9,85 for the registration. Expect to fell a tree to gain the required amount of paperwork and [...]
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