We went to Viveiro (pooping nativity scene town) to watch their Domingo de Ramos parade. This translates as Sunday of the branches. The Semana Santa parades in Viveiro are famous and declared a fiesta of cultural interest. I don’t think…
We’ve been doing some work on the garden. I’ve been strimming it as much as possible to keep the nettles, ivy and brambles down, but on some of the garden it’s growing back as soon as I strim it, I…
Two horses, a mother and foal, came to live in the field next door. We thought it was going to be cows, but apparently there was a change of plan! We have also been to see a ‘Castro’ which is…
This is a ship at Burela port which is being stacked with eucalyptus logs. Here are the stacks of logs. These are actually very big piles, however it’s not clear in the photo. There’s a crane towards the right of…
We went to Praia As Catedrais (Cathedral Beach), which is just the other side of Foz. We had to time this right, as much of the beach can’t be seen during high tide, so it’s best to visit to coincide…
We’d read about Donacella’s cave which is the other side of Viveiro (pooping nativity scene town). We had to go to the police station there to get our address changed on our residency cards (which didn’t happen), so we thought…
Our seaglass collection! It’s growing (and we have more in the house!) Oh, and if you look the big pebbley thing in the middle of the photo above (in front of the plant pots on the wall), Ian found it…
The other day we took a walk over to the headland by the beach near the house where there’s the site of an iron age fort. Then I was reading in the local paper that some buildings are being demolished…
—we were picking asparagus This year we’re picking amethyst What a difference a year makes!! Last year hunting asparagus… This year hunting Daisy’s ball in the river: Last year olive groves… This year beaches Last year home of the Spanish…
Carnival has been in full throw. There appeared to be parades in most of the towns. We saw the one in Burela by accident, but we went to the one in San Ciprian as it was nearest to us. There…