What a week of gloom and doom? Everytime you turn on the telly , the news is either depressing or frightening. As the world reels from one financial shock, to numerous aftershocks, since the collapse of leading financial institutions in USA and the UK, we must not sit back and be complacent. We can all…
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
Ebro Valley News is alive and well!
The local newspaper, Ebro Valley News is still alive and well! It has survived all the teething problems that one expects when a new, news print hits the racks. The next issue will be out and on the streets on the 20th September. It will have a wider distribution area from Barcelona, stretching down towards…
White Suzuki “missing” from Campredo Hills> Uk registration of J 510 OND
If this week has not been hard enough on folk who live on the outskirts of town with petrol shortage! Now, someone has gone and “helped themselves” to someone’s old, little valued but treasured vehicle. Vehicle – 1991 Suzuki SJ413 LWB White J510OND Mike and Denise would like their old reliable, faithful friend back please….
Truckers strike begins to hit Tortosa´s shelves
Yesterday meat, fish and fresh vegetables shelves were bare in most Supermarkets. Milk was unavailable. Diesel was unavailable and long queues for Sin Plumo 95 petrol But the local indoor market in Jesus at the top of the town, still had shelves laden with fresh vegetables. Two ladies, each run their own stalls in there…
“The Olive Press” magazine, the second one is now out with 40 pages
“The Olive Press” has already extended to 40 pages and this is only their second edition. This magazine is geared not only for the Lower Ebro Valley, but seems to cover the North-East corner of Spain. So it is with interest I can read about the Zarragoza Expo 2008; the El Bulli Restaurant near Girona and…
Un vino tinto o una grande cerveza por favor
One of the first phrases we learn as migrating English swallows to settle in the Ebrolands healthy micro-climates. After that we gather a few collective phrases together that follow on with small “bar stool” chat and then stop. Why? So it was with interest to open my “Inbox” and read a very thought provoking article…
Kitty and her Poultice
Of all the nights of horrendous, torrential rain and thunderstorms one of my cats came in bedraggled and bleeding over the weekend. Oh, no! Not another emergency trip to the vet. Under her chin were two huge bite marks and the fur had been torn away. Definitely not a snake in that case, but she…
Tortosa snapshots – spy in the sky …
I stumbled upon a nifty little site : http://resimajans.com/tortosa.html that portrays various sites relating to Tortosa. It depicts this blog one and www.Brighterspain.com. I was a little wary on entering this site as I wasn´t sure if it was one of those “naughty girlie” sites. When you google the meaning of “Resimajas” it comes up as ‘girls’. …
Cheap flights to Reus airport from Scotland now available
I was surprised to discover how many airports in Scotland do actually offer cheap flights into Reus Airport. Reus airport is in Catalonia and between Reus and Tarragona towns. Do not be misled where some airlines depict destination as “Reus Airport (Barcelona)”. It is no where near Barcelona and if that is your destination and…
Cherry festival in Pauls, (near Xerta) is also on tomorrow.
Gosh! I was longing to do something different today and forgot all about this wonderful fiesta in Pauls, near Xerta just off the C12. The good news is: it is on for two days 31May to 1st June. So pop along tomorrow if you missed out on it today. Everyone who goes to this fiesta…