Recent Comments
Bill Horne on Setting up in Palencia annerose on Setting up in Palencia Denny Durocher on El Hacedor 
An Excursion to El H… on El Hacedor artistatexit0 on IUFRO Banff 2013: day 2
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Gernika
By the time we got to Gernika, it was dark, and we headed from the last bus stop towards the downtown core where we thought the hostel was located. There weren’t any signs for it, so we asked the first … Continue reading
Las Almendres
Last Sunday we were invited along with Dorien and Edo to have lunch at their friend Hugo’s place in a village near Medina de Pomar. A Belgian-born psychotherapist and total non-conformist, Hugo bought the remains of an old village a … Continue reading
Elections & protests
Municipal elections are taking place all over the country on Monday, so every town is plastered with posters. A very thorough grafitti artist in Torrelavega has managed to spray red clown noses on almost all of the Conservative Party’s candidates’ … Continue reading
El Hacedor
From Madrid we flew to Bilbao and caught a bus through the mountains to Oña where there is a monastery nearly 1000 years old. The production of rosin was the base of the local economy for many generations and with … Continue reading
Fun with customs & shipping
We are learning a lot on this trip! To take Claire’s art to Spain for a temporary exhibition of paintings that are not primarily for sale we had to apply for an “ATA Carnet” through the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. … Continue reading
