Tourists for years, visiting our beautiful Southern Catalonian district have enquired of me, “…but where are are your local artists? We don’t see any!” they have remarked frustrated to hell and quite fed up they were really. Some even went on to inform me (in case I hadn’t already twigged), “Not everyone comes to the [...]
The second article in the series covering my interview with another well known local man:
Salvador Pallarés Brull
- Town Councilor of El-Perello, representative on the National council for Convergence, business entrepreneur and a family man.
Salvador was born in El-Perello and is proud to talk about his ancestors having family roots in the village traceable for several [...]
X-Factor 2010 will soon be upon us and many will sit down in front of the television, ea ch Saturday night and voice their opinions on the acts involved. If you were to cast your mind back to the 2008 edition of the series, you will probably recall a guy by the [...]
BY ROSIE REAY.
It never ceases to amaze me when I find a local, quietly spoken person who has such hidden depths in artistic skills literally living on my doorstep in the Lower Ebro Valley. An English gent that hails originally from Kent and then from Suffolk. Spent two interesting years, savouring the life as an [...]
Joan Rovira picked up the guitar at age 7, he had music lessons and went on to play the saxophone. I asked whether he comes from a musical family. “No”, he replied, “but my grandfather, whom I never knew, always played the harmonica”.
He formed a band, ARANGU, (very funky Latin) whilst studying [...]
WHEN MY FAMILY and I decided to move to Catalunya, my sister and I were both thrown into the Catalan schools right at the deep end.
We had both, at this time, never spoken any Catalan to anybody what so ever. So we both found it very difficult to follow the normal classes.
AT THE PRIMARY school [...]
After living in Catalunya for a few years I have got to know a few of the locals and they have proved to be some of the friendliest and most supportive people I have met in my many years of international travel.
Now I´m retired but getting to know these folk has helped me understand what [...]
