Category Archives: Local Life

The blind leading the blind

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Paul

Our next door neighbours in Liñeiras are English, for the moment at least. The house which they bought a couple of months after we acquired our pile of stones is back on the market and they are renovating another house … Continue reading →

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I’ve named the donkey

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Paul

I’ve stopped thinking about the dead cat….damn! As promised, Dolores met me in Pontenova at nine o’clock this morning to assist me in trying to buy an angle grinder and a pipe terminator so that I can ensure that the … Continue reading →

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The people of the fog

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Paul

Our corner of Galicia is known throughout Spain as the ‘Land of the people of the fog‘. I know that it doesn’t paint a very good picture of our future home, but today was really the first time in a … Continue reading →

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A room with a view

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Paul

‘There are four bedrooms, three of them are empty, pick whichever one you want’ said Ramon as we made final telephone arrangements for my much appreciated loan of his apartment in Taramundi. Now anyone who has observed me trying to … Continue reading →

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Salt with everything

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Paul

It’s a sight that I have never seen before. My Landy was parked at the back of a long queue of 4×4’s and MPV’s away from the vertically challenged saloons and estates, who after all had paid less than us. … Continue reading →

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