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The Flight of the Snowbirds
... 8221; for “a small cabin of clay and wattles made.”)
A couple of times we walked into Iseo town. This was once an important port for the silk weaving industry which thrived around the lake. The medieval street pattern remains, but for the most part the current buildings were pleasant but unspectacular. While they were there the local TV station was filming the re-launch of a lovely old (1926) steamship. It was quite ...
¿Are we in Rome? ¡No, Just Tarragona!
... carried out brings it to life. Their construction techniques are the same in Spain as they are in Rome, regardless of the differences in culture, language, and the sheer distance between the two places. After our brief stop in Tarragona, we drove to Valencia. Stay tuned for more adventures! Your Can't-Escape-the-Italians Adventurers, Katherine, Zack, Ginger and Steve (aka mom and ...
The Baixada de l'Aliga
... up on our side included a large and regal looking chap with some kind of a fur robe who ended up standing right in front of us, which meant that we didn't have a great view at the time. We reasoned that when the band struck up with Amparito Roca he would join in the dance and we would be able to see everything that was going on. We were wrong. This giant for some reason didn't dance, which meant that we really couldn't see much of what was going on, without ...
Vis Mig in the morning, castles at night
... We noticed that they had a rather interesting-sounding Menu del Dia for €12.
There were lots of birds in the harbour and it didn't take long to find a few Audouins Gulls amonsgt the Yellow-legged, Mediterranean and Black-headed Gull. I tried hard to find Slender-billed Gulls which are commoner than Audouin's and are present in the nearby Ebro Delta but with no success. There were terns about too. Sandwich Terns called often and there was at least on ...
Santa Tecla
... was the Cercavila starting in about an hour and the various elements were already forming up in Placa de la Font.
We stopped to see them all safely underway and as they take quite a long route around town thought we might intercept them in Placa del Rei but despite taking a short cut by the time we got near it was clear that the crowd of spectators was huge and that we would not be able to get through, so we stopped for a while in front of the headquarters of the Joves de Tarragona ...