The fiesta of San Ramón

Everyone is in their Sunday best for the midday mass and the statue of San Ramón is carried around the village leading the procession just the same as it was on Saturday 18th when it all started, (see ¡FIESTA! Day two).The main difference is that this afternoon in the Plaza Mayor, there is paella for the whole village.Click left on any image for a larger view.We are sitting...

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San Ramón's eve.

I'm not quite sure why we were having another meal at the peña, but it seemed like a good idea. In the pot this evening were cooked chickens, halved, and boned, rolled and cooked shanks of pork - all just had to be heated up. These were accompanied by salad , bread and olives.Click left on the image for a larger view.As this was not an "official" peña meal, in other words...

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It's Cultural Week - day 2

The big decision was whether to have the concierto in the church or at the village swimming pool and bar. Finally, the committee made their choice of the swimming pool - the church would have been a better venue for this occasion. There was too much backgound noise from the bar during the performance not to mention the resident cricket chirping away and the children running...

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It's Cultural Week - day 1 evening

It's "cultural week" in the village this week and they have shown a couple of films which we haven't been to see but this evening was a "circus" - 3 acrobats - and this was held in the Plaza Mayor, the main square...Click left on any image for a larger view...a young woman with a very large pole that she climbed spider(wo)man style...a young man with a very large wheel that...

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It's Cultural Week - day 1 morning

Today was the last day the ermita was due to be open showing the collection of religious art and statues.Click left on the image to see it full size.Rather than show a picture of each piece separately, here is acollage - is this what heaven looks like?Margaret scrutinized each piece and made detailed not...

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¡FIESTA! day four

As usual we made our way to the Plaza Mayor just after 21.00 for dancing to the group playing there. Tonight we also had the presentation of awards to the winning football team and the draw of the raffle organised by the women's group. Then, around 22.20 we all went back to our peñas for evening meal. This evening it was cold ham, sausages, cheese, bread with tomato followed...

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¡FIESTA! day three

The womens group have an exhibition of their work during the fiesta in the ayuntamiento, town hall, and Margaret was asked to display three of her pieces she had worked on this year.This is a Thai carving bought in Epping many years ago that Margaret had painted. It was tastfully displayed above Lola's mother-in-laws crocheted bed cover.Click left on any image to see it full...

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¡FIESTA! Day two

The main day of the fiesta and it is in several parts kicking off with mass in the church at midday to celebrate San Ramón. Everyone is in their Sunday best even though it's Saturday and the church is packed - standing room only.San Ramón is carried through the streets of the village.All the ladies are in their best outfits.At the end of the service cake is distributed from...

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¡FIESTA! Day one

To celebrate 700 years of this area being part of the domain of the church of Zaragoza one of the things going on is a display of sacred art which has already been shown at 4 of the local villages. The display in the ermita de San Juan coincides with the fiesta here in the village and a talk and PowerPoint presentation by the local expert was aranged to start at 5:00pm. Because...

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¡FIESTA! minus 1

Last Saturday we went to the peña* to cut back the grass which had grown during the last year and sweep out the table area where we eat. Others were doing some much more serious work of replacing part of the floor which no longer existed.*A "peña" is the name given to a group or gang of people who meet to socialise. It is also the name of the place where they meet. Our meeting...

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Como hacer manualidades con abalorios

En esta página web encontrarás instrucciones y aprenderás como hacer manualidades con abalorios:www.anillosdeabalorios.comaquí tienes un ejem...

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Another meal with the "mujeres" of Torre del Compte

Margaret has just returned from another meal with 69 women from the village - yes there's more of them now as many are here from the cities for their holidays or at least for the weekend.The meal was in the "hall" next to the restaurant, (bring your own chair - Lola who lives quite close to the restaurant took a chair for Margaret). The "committee" were the waitresses and...

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My birthday BBQ

26 people have just enjoyed a sumptuous meal in our bodega. It was so good because everyone brought a dish either to go with the meat from the BBQ or as a postre after the meal as the sweet course.The meat was cooked to perfection by Manalo in the true Spanish style of build a wood fire and cook on the ashes - none of this charcoal business for him!Meanwhile, while the meat...

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