Before you read this post I just want to say it is dedicated to Rod Younger of Books4Spain who died suddenly last weekend. A fellow lover of Spain he had an avid interest in Spanish history and especially the Civil … Continue reading
The outdoors is one of my great passions and another one is walking which is good as I can combine both! It would drive Julia crazy if I did my walking indoors. Over the years I have walked many parts … Continue reading
“Amazing, stunning, beautiful, awesome”……..nowadays these words have lost much of their descriptive value as we bloggers/writers(not all!) overuse them to exhausting excess and look for adequate vocab to impress upon our readers the beauty or uniqueness of something we are … Continue reading
It has not happened through skilful or conscious planning but sort of over the years we have accumulated a certain amount of special places in the southeast quarter of Spain which we visit annually or bi-annually or sometimes more. These … Continue reading
Putting one foot in front of the other is something we all do naturally. In its repetitive form it is,of course, called walking.Since times long gone we as a race have been able to walk upright and indeed our mobility … Continue reading
As the shepherd made his way along the hilltop he could see the small village huddled down between the rocky mountains.Darkness was descending and the twinkling village lights made it easy for him to navigate his way down the … Continue reading
Deep in a dark,thick mountain pine forest you get that sort of silence that only nature can produce. The pine needle carpet and the closely growing pine trees prevent light and sound from invading the depths of the silent pinewooded … Continue reading
The idea of moving sheep(or cows) to greener pastures for better grazing is a concept that has been among shepherds the world over for thousands of years but here in Spain the “transhumancia”(the moving of sheep from one pasture grazing … Continue reading
I have a friend who comes out here to Spain to walk and raptor watch and his favourite expression when out in the wild is:”It’s a harsh paradise,Paddy!”. This is a story about a very harsh paradise.The story of a … Continue reading
The vast majority of the fifty five million visitors who come to Spain each year come to visit the country for the sun and sea or to visit one or more of the big cities. Very few actually go inland … Continue reading
Patrick Waller
