The new mayor of a small Gallician concelo (Ribeira Sacra) was asked by the villagers if he thought this years winter would be very long and hard. Due to the modern Galician weather forecast, the people of the Ribeira Sacra have lost touch with the signs from the natural world, which where still known by the…
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Hate Mildew & Erineum Mite – Love Pallets – From the global aldea Mer (Galicia)
There is never a dull moment here in rural Galicia and the Ribeira Sacra. The diggers have left, the guests have left and it’s back to “normal”. This translates into working on the ever growing list of tasks and trying to fight nature to get a reasonable crops of grapes and veggies of course. I…
Pipe dream or nightmare – The concello sorts it out
In June this year we had the surprise visit of a rather large digger, stone breaker and JCB. I called it the stone mole. They had a hard time (really) to go into our granite rock. One of the reasons I installed a floating floor in our salon rather than try to dig or level…
