Tag Archives: Ribadeo

Why Galicia? Why Mariña?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Paul

This is why? Just stumbled across this beautiful video of the Mariña coastline, the nearest coast to the house, and thought I’d share it with you. It does have sound…just in case you are at work! [youtube n0jUEqEKug0 nolink]

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Ribadeo, our gateway to the coast

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Paul

As we await a couple of pieces of important news about the house, which I will of course share with you in due course, I thought I’d blog about Ribadeo. Although mentioned previously in passing, I’ve not focused on our … Continue reading →

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Hotel Rolle, leading by example

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Paul

It would be easy, if somewhat boring, for me to blog about the hotels we’ve stayed in. But on this occasion I am going to tell you about Hotel Rolle in Ribadeo, and for good reason.  Hotel Rolle Jose Carlos Rolle … Continue reading →

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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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