As hard weeks go here in Spain, this past week has been up there as one of the hardest. Nothing that dog and a trip out of town with the villagers couldn’t sort out though…
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As hard weeks go here in Spain, this past week has been up there as one of the hardest. Nothing that dog and a trip out of town with the villagers couldn’t sort out though…
As we approach our third Christmas in our adopted country, it’s a good time to assess whether or not we miss anything about Christmas in the UK…
When do you know, as a foreigner living abroad, that you feel part of the community in which you live? Our intention, when we arrived here, was to do our best to become part of the Spanish way of life, and feel that this is our home…
We are already well into October and we haven’t really had time to mark the fact that, as of the 1st October, we have been living in Spain for two years! This past twelve months has absolutely flown by, so it is probably time that the fleeting weeks just started to take things a little more calmly…
The Thursday evening of the festival sees the arrival of stalls and stallholders. We have heard so many reports of the thousands of visitors who descend on tiny Moclín during the course of this weekend. On the 5th October, between 10,000 and 15,000 can turn up…
5th October in Moclín is the key date of the Fiesta Cristo del Paño. One of the most important classic religious festivals in Andalucia, Las Fiestas en Honor del Santísimo Cristo del Paño run from the 4th to 7th October, and we thought we’d embrace the opportunity to introduce ourselves properly to our village.
Last week, we felt extremely privileged to be allowed to go and visit an archaeological dig. We have written recently about the depth of history here in our immediate vicinity, and the sheer scale of the timeline is becoming increasingly hard to comprehend…
This week we went to see a fantastic performance of a Kathak and Flamenco fusion at the Me Vuelves Lorca festival in Laroles deep in the Alpujarras. Here is our review of the performance…
As we are getting to know both our new village of Moclín, and the people who live here, we are also getting to discover that we happen to live in an extraordinarily historic corner of Spain.
August is a favourite time of ours in Granada. Traditionally the month for holidays, many inland-dwelling Spaniards abandon the cities in favour of the cooler coasts. Despite the holidays, paradoxically Granada is alive with music and performance and that is not just limited to the city…
