Month July 2007

We went to a Bodega yesterday for the first time. We went to El Reposa on the way home from buying something to stick the exhaust pipe together (and look for portable air conditioners) in Zafra and popped into see…

Apparently in years gone by the field would be full of these grain mounds. They start appearing mid June and the farmers bring them in by tractor, van and by donkey and cart.

Well, not a stone circle as such, but a set of seats which later in the day will be topped by elderly men watching the world go by.

There is a sort of ‘aqua gritter’ which looks like a gritter lorry, but goes round the dirt roads spraying water on the tracks to keep down dust (we couldn’t work out when it had rained and why only on…

There must be different career opportunities here than in the UK. For instance, there must be a whole industry that surrounds fiestas. Not only the organisation, but also the stall holders, the bands and the other entertainment. In Villagarcia they…