Reading one of stonehead’s musings on the lack of knowledge regarding the natural order and where our food comes from got me reminiscing about our early days in the Catalan countryside.  Three seperate incidents made me realise just how far removed we urban types seem from the food chain and how daft Spaniards often think [...]

I read some very sad news today.  The last working donkey in our local village has retired.  I’m devastated.  I realise I’m a tragic foreigner about this, but I love love love those rare days when we time a trip to town just right and manage to get stuck behind the last working donkey, laden [...]