Car boot sales have become to us, such a hobby and an important part of our weekends. We no longer need suffer “carboots´ withdrawal symptons ” now we have relocated to Catalonia. We can now enjoy another one here on the outskirts of Tortosa, in Terrapico El Raval de Cristo this Sunday…
Category: Hints for settlers
Expats – Lets create a huge stir – Friday 28th September!
Forty million pounds have been raised over the last seventeen years with MacMillans´ largest Cancer Support Coffee Morning. Last year alone they raised 2 miilion pounds. Friday, 28th September 2007 – help make it the World´s biggest, greatest Coffee Morning ever. Come on you Expats out there. Hold a good old Coffee morning, gossip and…
Fontcalda Spa – a hermitage along Canaletes River-TerraAlta
Summer holidays are not over yet. They are longer than in the UK. Three glorious months you have entertained the “offsprings”. . . One can run out of ideas as what to do with them, when you yourself don´t want to do another beach trip this week or go to crowded “hot spots”. Temperatures are…
Cinema a la fresca dijous d´agost – JESUS 2007-TORTOSA
<< Pergola next to the Canal in Jesus-Tortosa Outdoor cinema on every Thursday evening in August. The days are now so hot. So in the evenings around 10 o´clock, walk on down to the village of Jesus near Tortosa. The cinema will be under the pergola, down by the canal and conveniently near the Bar…
BRIGHTER TRAVEL FOR THE DISABLED & ELDERLY – “SNOWY” TRAVELS TOO…
We welcome the herald of the EU, for bringing in new regulation from today, for the travel industry, airports and airlines for improved services and access for travel towards the elderly and Disabled! This will enhance the journeys for the Blind, as free travel must be provided for guide dogs. (Obviously they will need their…
Buying Properties in Brighter Catalonia…the Brighter side of Spain
You have read the bad press and the scare mongery on what makes good TV viewing ratings on “everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong” on the Expats who moved to Spain . However, buying property in rural Spain / Catalonia may seem to be a daunting task after watching all this media coverage….
THE BEST MEDIEVAL FIESTA IN CATALONIA STARTS TODAY
Roll up! Roll up! The quaintest market sellers from Medieval times gone by, will line the evening streets of the old, medieval part of Tortosa – the riverside town, along the Ebro. See our wares, come and stare, artisan their craft will share, many products to compare, try not to buy, I thee do dare,…
-Spud´s salad – Ensalada patata – Amanida patata – Kartoffel salat
Cooking becomes a whole new hobby out here. The cooking is shared by entire families and the men still claim they are better chefs around the barbecue than the women. Fine, by me, Angeles let´s have that one glass of red wine now! Ganz einfag! Germans make great potato salad, both hot and cold. Oktoberfest would…
…I´m only a WOMAN…
Life is so utterly different out here for a woman , when you put down your roots as opposed to just vacationing. A woman´s role takes on many different and very sharp learning curves here in Baix Ebre. You tackle huge projects, unaccountable tasks, manage the most amazing life-changing factors and stress and dire, family…
Concurs Popular de Truites i la Paella por Jesusencs
DIMECRES -11 juliol (Catalan) – Wedneday 11th July. Mid – week and fancy doing something different tonight and not wanting to wait for the weekend to go out, come on down to Jesus in Tortosa and watch the giant paella competition. What is even better you are invited to share in the spoils of…