The second weekend of January sees the begining of the yearly fiesta season. Our perocia Proendos celebrates San Amaro our chosen saint. I highly recommend to read the Wikipeda entry about Saint Amaro. I find it quite entertaining and fitting to our area as we don’t have to search for paradise, we do get a [...]
Today is tres reyes or tres magos. This is much more important than xmas, specifically as there are more presents. It’s also the last day of the xmas tree and we are already starting to look forward to easter. Normaly on the night of the tres magos a local banda comes round but this year [...]
If you haven’t heard of Wallace and Gromit you may not know Shaun the sheep. Here is a clip to tell you about it. Quite a while ago I heard of the availabilty of sheep wool as insulation. I thought “great idea” talked to some people about it, read about it and promptly forgot it. [...]
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