Whilst working renovating yet another bodega Carmen, our neighbor, stopped by and said are you going to the bailar la luna tonight? …. Well, OK, so it expires once a year there is a dance competition in Sober where the “Banda de Sober” plays and couple get numbers and dance. There is a jury and…
Events
Public holidays Spain Galicia and UK as well as local and regional events
Feira da Rosca – Mer Sober – Always 12th of August (market day)
As written before feiras (ferias in castellan) and fiestas not necessarily are on weekends. Our local Feira da Rosca is dove tailed on the first market day in August. This, in Sober is the 12th. Normally Sober is on the quiet side. August sees nearly all houses inhabited as lots of Galiciens come home for…
The fiesta is not essesarily on a weekend or at least 3 days
Again we have fallen for the trap that one sort of automatically assumes a fiesta is on a weekend. Like I’ve written before, time is a slightly different concept here. It is therefore very important to memorise the names of the days not the numerals. So Sobers fiesta de Rosca is on Lunes (12 de…
