Tag Archives: Asturias

The ancient home of the celts

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Paul

Apart from the business that we needed to conduct on our last trip, we also decided to take an extra day and hit some of the local tourist trail. On the Friday morning we set off for Oviedo where we … Continue reading →

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Food, glorious food

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Paul

I have a problem with taking photographs of food. It’s nothing moral, nothing even technical, it is more a case of despite my best intentions to catalogue our foray into Galician cooking I am usually half way through the dish before I … Continue reading →

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To whet the appetite

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Paul

Saturday afternoon saw a melancholic return from Galicia after a fruitful and interesting, although far too short, visit to the house. We managed to cram loads into the seventy-two hours we spent in our little piece of paradise, in what was … Continue reading →

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And then there were two

Posted on October 26, 2010 by admin

‘Cutting off ones nose to spite ones face’. Founded in the medieval practice of women disfiguring themselves to protect their virginity, the phrase has passed into common parlance and is associated with a needless self-destructive over-reaction to a problem. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Meeting house criteria, the lure of the green

Posted on October 20, 2010 by admin

After forty-two years on this earth, although I acknowledge that I do look like I’ve been here a bit longer than that, I think that I am qualified to put forward the hypothesis that there are two types of people … Continue reading →

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