For Immediate Release Book 1 of The Chimona Chronicles: How Kelvyn Got His Name by Rosie Reay Includes FREE Supplement Poem: The Squirrel from Wirral Jun 3rd, 2009. Silicon Valley, CA: Foden Press today announced the release of Rosie Reay’s first book in The Chimona Chronicles series that tells a tale of critters around a…
Author: Rosie Reay
Ebro Voice is the blog of author Rosie Reay to compliment her love of travel, languages, books and authors, history, research, local legends, news bits and bobs
, trends, reviews and other geographical and environmental information on this lovely L'Ampolla coastline, Ebro river valley and Ebro delta in Catalonia, almost midway between Barcelona and Valencia in Northeast Spain. There is a serious side to her research in promoting not only local business enterprises but her insatiable interest in the marketing, branding and etymology of global company and product names
Words, beautiful words…Creative Writing Workshops
Valerie Collins of “In the Garlic” fame is working alongside another British writer, Nicola Thornton and have vacancies for their “Creative Writing Workshop” on June 6th, 2009 in Barcelona. The venue is only a few minutes walk from Passeig de Gràcia railway station. Please contact them for more details on: bestwriterbcn@gmail.com This is there last…
Labou is out on DVD today!
Wow! It is ages since a cute little, lovable character has come onto our screens to capture the hearts of every child and their family like ET did. Now he has competition . There is a new kid on the block – or should I say swamp? Labou is here. It is out on DVD…
Expoebre:Fira de Tortosa – a “platform of opportunities”
The president Ricard Forés has announced that the 65th Lands of the Ebro fair (as it is better known across Tarragona) has a two pronged focus. The first is to provide the maximum attractiveness to make the journey for the multi-cultural communities to this fair worthwhile and pleasant in these difficult economic times. Secondly, the…
May 1st. Día de trabajo. Labour Day
Don’t try to go shopping anywhere in Spain today. Everywhere is shut. Banks included. This is a national day for the Fiesta del Trabajo. Often referred to as “día de trabajadors” – the day of or for the workers. The Spanish are also notorious for taking the day in front or behind and tagging it…
International Pottery & Ceramic fair in La Galera, Montsià – 1st to 3rd May
(Feria de la Alfarería y Cerámica, La Galera Del 1 de mayo al 3 de mayo) La Galera MONTSIÀ, borders on our delightful Catalonia and is easily accessible from all the arterial routes as displayed on the Google map. During the days of fair it is reported than more than eighty exhibitors of pottery and…
High on the hill is a lonely goat herd
Well, not quite Julie Andrews style but I am sure the locals won’t mind if you yodel on down or up the hill to the quaint mountainside village of Rasquera, to join in their annual goat fiesta ” cabra fira” this weekend. Yes once more they are celebrating this traditional fair on the 2nd and…
Ghosts in the finca.
Ghosts in the finca and not of Christmas past dear Charles, but oh my Dickens what is going on here! Living the rustic life in southern Catalonia it is not unusual to loose our electric power during electrical thunderstorms and high winds off Mont Caro. During the summer when all the neighbours and their families…
Easter Week in Catalonia = Setmana Santa a Tortosa
So many British children merely associate Easter as a chance to indulge in a mound of Easter Eggs. Where they think their “street cred.” improves with the higher number of eggs received. When we first moved out to Catalonia we were hard pressed to find any decent eggs and were scouring around “English shops” along…
Who turned the sun off?
Well last week saw us eagerly packing away all our winter tracksuits and woollies and singing “Happy Days” as we donned our shorts and sunny tops. One glorious week of blissful hot days up in the 24 degrees. Oh, we are trully blessed to be living in this corner of Eden. What a shock when…