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It is a little known fact that the symbol of the 5th wedding anniversary is Ice Cream. So with our wedding anniversary looming, we decided to treat ourselves to one. OK – so that is not true about ice cream…

We talk about the strange nocturnal life and the affect of siestas. This is from the program for a fiesta at Jerez de Cabellaro on Sunday. Notice that absolutely nothing happens between 2.30 and 9 o’clock. Oh – and also…

It’s all happening up at the field. This pic was taken at 7.30 in the morning and it looked like a vintage tractor rally up there. We still don’t really get what is going on – people bring their grain,…

I just happened to find myself (again) behind one of the shepherds and his sheep when I was out with Bob this morning. And remarkably I had my camera. I am uncomfortable about taking pics of normal people doing normal…

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…