Month February 2025

Well, we had thought we’d been to all the local beaches – then realized that we hadn’t been to any just the other side of Burela. We’d been to the beaches further towards Foz, but there are some beaches that…

There’s a problem with people poaching shellfish. The Spanish (or maybe Galician) word for poacher is furtivo – which I think is a great word! I was reading about the furtivos before Christmas as it’s a big problem around that…

The man who comes to tend the huerta opposite us gave us a big bag of lemons. He has a number of lemon trees and it looks like it’s been a pretty good year. There are lemon trees everywhere –…

We’ve had back to back storms last week with high winds and lots of waves! The beaches and coast paths were closed and even Burela port was closed one day, which questions the expression ‘any port in a storm’. We…