There was a Norman fiesta in Foz last weekend which we went to. As with all fiestas, it was another opportunity for people to dress up – in Norman or not-quite-so-Norman costumes. It was quite fun as they came ashore,…
Peppers are coming through thick and fast – I wish now we’d labelled them as we don0t know without trying which are the hot ones and which are the sweet ones. They look so much the same! Ian has made…
I forgot to post this in the mermaid fiesta post – it’s a song by a local band about Maruxaina, which is the mermaid. This was from a previous year. There are some good arial photos 🙂
It was the Mermaid fiesta this weekend. We went along to the start of it, but didn’t stay for the evening/night/early morning celebrations. This is the fiesta where people must vote on whether the mermaid is good or bad. Given…
Remember to collect the vegetables. I’d sort of forgotten about our carrots, having picked a few as baby carrots, we had left the rest. Only to find that now they are the size of our cat Babbity! We have also…
A signpost has appeared pointing people to Fontao – which is a surprise and perhaps will stop the delivery driver randomly leaving parcels at different venues in different towns for us. It’s still a little unclear as to where Fontao…
There was a Viking festival in a town just the other side of Viviero (pooping nativity scene town) and we went to watch the Vikings arrive – and found ourselves watching a re-enactment which was excellent. I’m not sure of…
is why we initially staked our tomatoes with tiny stakes – this is our previous attempt at tomato growing and they didn’t get much taller than my knees! And why we have had to stake and restake our tomatoes several…
I think we may know this as a bird’s house gourd? But here they are called calabaza peregino which is ‘Pilgrim’s Gourd’ and pilgrims taking the camino Santiago would use them to carry water. I’m not sure what we’ll do…
We went to a medieval fiesta this weekend. I couldn’t make up my mind whether we were on the set of Blackadder or a scene from Midsomer Murders where someone gets killed by a javelin (don’t know if that has…