Right before we left for the south of Spain after spending 3 weeks at our son’s house we managed to get a Spanish bank account. What I didn’t anticipate is they would send cards by mail. Both debit cards and credit cards. And no good to us in Leganés while we are here of course. … Read more
We use a Brita filter for our tap water. Those filters can be bought almost everywhere: at the supermarkets that are big enough to have a non-food department, at the Mediamarkt, at some household stores. But you can’t recycle them in the store where you buy those filters. I gave up on asking in the … Read more
One of the toilets keeps running some water all the time. The pot has been out of its place when the whole system was blocked, so I thought both events were connected. The fontanero explained to me one had absolutely nothing to do with the other. The plumber was here to fix it today. He … Read more
For the last couple of years, I used to organize colleges for city council clerks at the university in Amsterdam. During one of the colleges, the ‘age of speciation’ of humans came up: ‘roughly 300.000 years ago.’ One of the clerks countered this. According to his belief, it could only have been between 5.000 to … Read more
Until today every early morning and every early evening clouds are hanging either on top of the mountains or above our heads. Today was the exact opposite. An impeccable blue sky this morning and the moment I am writing this post. And clouds in the middle of the day. Everybody keeps warning us it’s going … Read more
This field is close to the house and often we see the white tails of rabbits fleeing from us when we walk past. I did my utmost to make a picture of them, but they’re too quick. The sign coto privado de caza means ‘private hunting’. Does this mean they shoot the rabbits, I wonder?I … Read more
When we arrived in the house we have rented for the summer there was a skinny plant near the gate that almost looked dead. I didn’t give it much attention at the time. Last week all of a sudden flowers blossomed on the one branch the plant has. Beautiful yellow with red ones. And today … Read more
I think we are adjusting to the Spanish timetable regarding food pretty well. In Spain lunch is the main meal of the day. It is served between 2 and 4 pm. In most restaurants and cafes you can have a menú del día for 10€ over here.We either go out for a menu or we … Read more
We went house-hunting today in Bolnuevo at the coast. Bolnuevo is famous for its erosiones, although I must admit that the first time we went to visit those we couldn’t find them. That is to say, we walked past them several times before we realized this was it. A house we didn’t find either. Yet. … Read more
This is Sebastian Cuny. A Frenchman who has lived already for 14 years in Spain. Together with his family, he runs two tiendas (shops) of ecological and regional products: Natural Verdiana. One in Alhama de Murcia and the other in the Plaza de Abastos in Puerto de Mazarrón. The one where we now buy fresh … Read more