Last night the heavens opened its storm drains across the Lower Ebro Valley. Boy did we receive some rain! Lovely for the olives and the mandarin groves, but not for pelting down on our finca´s old flat roof. Our roofer, could not have been called back to the UK at a worse time, but it…
Category: Hints for settlers
What have you been doing today?
If you knew me in back in UK or South Africa would you would just not believe what I have been doing today! In fact I am still “gob smacked” myself. I still don´t believe it! …picking up garden snails….. No, not because of any concern for my plants or the eco-balance in my overgrown,…
Failures of global Finance, what can we do to help fix it?
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…
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…
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…