We had to go to the council offices last week in Cervo. Cervo is Galician for deer and this is the coat of arms. I’ve seen deer in the field now occupied by the horses, they were small but I…

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’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…