I was sweating my way past a garrigue-hidden house this afternoon when, to my not inconsiderable surprise, a woman leant out of an upstairs window, let fall her dress, and suggested I come in for something cool, viz a beer accompanied by a home-made tortilla de patatas, a game of billiards and a session in…
Where boring old Ulster farmers just used to store A for horses, Dutch farmers would park that shiny new Mercedes where the tax inspector couldn’t see it. Catalan farmers however are undisputed champions when it comes to the creative use of their barns: This type of soil has no market value, so the only explanation…
I’m pretty sure this picture is of the boar-pig hybrids mentioned the other day: These little darlings have been tusked where applicable, but the shoulders look broader to me than on boar I’ve seen before and the hide less hairy. On the other side of the hill there are what look like their feral cousins,…
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If you’re coming to Barcelona in the summer you probably won’t want to do huge amounts of walking around town because the heat is exacerbated by air pollution and humidity. However, if you get out of town and climb a bit, the picture changes dramatically. There’s a difference of 10°C in mean July temperatures between…
He’s got bath in his boat and I’ve got a boat in my bath, so I can’t really see why the world’s media only wants to interview Roman Abramovich. Anyway, here are some more photos (previous post) which I have received of the Pelorus undergoing what look like hull rib repairs, this time in Malta,…
I have been up the coast a couple of times this week (off again tomorrow) and I don’t think I’ve ever seen as many spring flowers. Their profusion is partly a consequence of heavy rainfall, and partly of the fires last summer that burnt away heavy shrubbery and young pine woods, clearing the ground. However,…
I’ve moaned about this before, and here’s a similar complaint in Terry’s Big Adventure: I noticed that there was more of a sidewalk etiquette in Barcelona than in Italy but I think this had more to do with the large numbers of polite tourists in the area I was in. I did notice, however, that…
One of the important benefits of having tourists wandering through the countryside is a reduction in rural crime. However, sometimes criminals infiltrate into my groups. Here, caught redhanded, is a Perthshire farmer attempting to borrow parts from an 80s Massey: You can see what remains of this tractor on this walk.
La Granada is a village of about 1,400 people. It’s best known for its satellite dish park, but there’s also a local TV station which, from Central Studios, apparently reaches 5,000 viewers with several hours a day of homegrown material (including Sunday mass live) and a satellite feed: There’s a rather nice walk that passes…
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