Month January 2023

Well, who’d have thought we lived near the tallest tree in Spain. Certainly we didn’t – although admittedly it was something we’d never really thought about!! The sequence of events was like this – we had walked up to see…

A lot of work has been going on with the cutting down of the eucalyptus trees opposite us. We don’t know yet whether this is part of the initiative to replace eucalyptus with less fire-hazardy trees, whether they are cutting…

We’ve had some storms, which included thunder and lightening for the first time. The lightening wasn’t as impressive as I hoped, as I had thought we may see it over the sea, but we did see the sky lighten but…

We went to Ribadeo which is on the Galicia / Asturias border. The border between Galicia and Asturias is along the river We went across the bridge into Asturias and noticed two differences – the first was we saw black…

There were some high waves over the weekend. The photo above is San Cibrao, it doesn’t look that impressive, however the video below is of Rueta beach – we could hear the waves crashing from the house. They make a…

The 3 kings came to town! Unlike our Villagarcia kings, these arrived on camels. Also, they didn’t do a tour of the town, just appeared to go up one street. But they were throwing sweets for the children – so…

We have a growing collection of lemons and decided to try preserving them. They are in salt and lemon juice and should ferment into something lemoney but not bitter – we’ll see 🙂 This is our lemon tree at the…

We see quite a lot of pink skies in the morning, but thankfully they don’t seem to the bearers of bad weather, but are quite pretty to look at. They change so quickly though, by the time I’ve gone to…