Errands

We had to do a number of errands this week – including going to the optician to get Ian’s new glasses (new glasses, new to wearing glasses and taking Horace to the vet for a haircut. The pic above is…

We had to do a number of errands this week – including going to the optician to get Ian’s new glasses (new glasses, new to wearing glasses and taking Horace to the vet for a haircut. The pic above is…

The photo above is when we took Daisy for an early morning walk on the beach in Burela. I think the sunlight was peeking its way through to Foz. A Trip to Viveiro Last weekend we went to a largest…

We see hydrangeas everywhere! There are one or two in the garden, but they have been tangled up in weeds so are a bit spindly. Ours have pink flowers, but both pink and blue grow wild. The photo is from…

We had to go to Burela so we thought we’d head down from to a town called Foz, which is our nearest big town. It’s population is about 10k people and it’s about 20km away from us. Being a larger…
So we gravitated towards San Ciprian a bit over the last few days as there is a very good hardware shop which Ian is making maximum use of buying bits and pieces to add new sockets and other things! On…
The house is looking a bit more lived in. Having been empty for a while, it had a sort of abandoned feel to it, but with some of our bits and pieces outside, it’s looking more lived in!

This is the small town which is about 3 km to the north of us. The opposite direction to Burela. It has two names, because one is in Spanish and the other in galician. It is a very pretty town,…

This morning we went to burela. We went to go shopping but took advantage of being there to have a little look around. There are several beaches which were very nice, and also there is what appears to be quite…

We noticed this in Villagarcía too when we first moved in, people were definitely shorter in days gone by. The sink, door handles and lights are definitely for shorter people!

We can see what looks like a small headland or point from the living room window and have seen lots of people walking to it. It turns out it is an ancient pre Roman fort and they are currently doing…