Blogs in February 2021

Camino – or a peanut butter, marmite and banana butty 2nd February 2021

In hindsight, deciding to walk the Camino de Santiago carrying everything but the kitchen sink was probably a mistake. Realising the chance of reaching their destination in three short weeks is a big fat zero, Lisa and partner S...

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Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly 2nd February 2021

“D’you think we should just get married then?” asked S, apropos of nothing, over the breakfast table one morning. For two people struggling to understand a foreign language in a remote part of Northwest Spain, Lisa and her partner,...

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Plum, Courgette & Green Bean Tart 2nd February 2021

Have you ever wanted to leave the rat race, move abroad and live the good life somewhere green and bountiful? Lisa and her partner, the enigmatic S, did just that. In 2007 they left their jobs, as newt catchers,...

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Mazurka for Two Dead Men 8th October 2020

Mazurka for Two Dead Men, the culmination of Camilo José Cela’s literary art, opens in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War: Lionheart Gamuzo is savagely murdered. In 1939, as the war ends, his brother avenges his...

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Camino de Santiago in 20 Days: My Way On The Way Of St. James 3rd June 2020

Funny, touching, and inspiring! A book about really walking the Camino de Santiago! Perhaps it was the onset of middle-age or just too much diet cola, but in the Spring of 2010, Canadian boy, Randall St. Germain felt called...

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