El Perelló and Torroella de Montgri
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances the British Consulate open events planned to take place El Perelló and Torroella de Montgri have been postponed.
Open events will no longer take place in the Catalunya region on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th May. New dates for these open days will [...]
THAT IS THE question….. Or maybe it’s the question we should be asking ourselves, but over a lazy luxurious breakfast in the sun, one morning last week, the question we asked was ‘to weed or not to weed’?
Or when contemplating the weeds on our gravelled area at the entrance of the house, where [...]
WHEN WE HEAR talk about cereals we automatically think of breakfast cereals and associate it with a cardboard box. However, we are talking about grain wheat and rice, as they are the most commonly used cereals in human food production although also important are barley, rye, oats, maize and millet. Cereals are the dry seeds [...]
BY ROSIE REAY
ONCE AGAIN MY writings take on a two prong route. The first is light hearted and the second is on a more serious note.
Country images Sprawled out on my hammock, writing materials piled up high around me, in wonderful sunshine. Glorious, glorious sunshine- no sign of volcanic ash clouds down here. Strange things [...]
THE MUNCHIE IS a light-hearted jovial creature, that has an uncanny ability, even in the depths of deep dark depression, to make most folk smile. It does this, simply by being its usual silly, bouncy self with the look of an angel sculptured on its features and the defiance in its eyes that could probably [...]
LA CALÇOTADA LENDS its name to the communal celebration of the calçots – leek-sized spring onions, blackened over open fires and served with a spicy nut sauce (see Romesco sauce below).
Valls, north of Tarragona, happens to be the capital of the Calçotada, going back to the 1800´s. All over Catalunya other towns celebrate this fiesta, [...]
LAST MONTH I wrote about our house The Monster, here are more of the stories and sometimes ridiculous situations we encountered.
Starting with the front door and its key : there was only one and it measured about seven inches and was very chunky not one to slip into your pocket and forget! Nevertheless I was [...]
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME PART 2
BY BRIAN HALL
In part one of ‘A Brief Moment’, we learnt of the beginning of Iberian history from the start of early man, the so called homo antecessor, some 800,000 years ago through to the time of the Phoenicians and Greeks and then the Carthaginian invasion of southern Spain [...]
CONTINUING FROM LAST month’s article we will now examine a few points in more detai.:
Isolation
To start with, the new cat should be set up in a separate room, often referred to as a “safe room”. No other animals should be allowed in that room at first. The safe room needs a litter box, food and [...]
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 [...]
