Today was a day that was dedicated to archeology. This picture is taken in the Museo Arceológico de Alicante. There is a special exhibition called Rupestre. It’s about cave art. From the Neolithic era (5000-4000 BC) to a couple of thousand years BC cave art used to develop from figurative to abstract. A development that … Read more
This picture is taken on a Sunday morning at eleven o’clock on the paseo along the Puerto Deportivo of Cartagena. We’ve been on this paseo already several times and love it. But we’ve never seen it so empty. That it is so empty is not very obvious. The paseo is next to the city center. … Read more
If you walk in Spain through urbanizacíones with walled houses, you regularly encounter nameplates with ‘family’ names such as Buzón and Cartas. Often with ceramic tiles in a classic ornate dark blue and bright yellow design. And although many Spanish men are called Pedro or Juan or Diego, their second name is not often Buzón or … Read more
The ants in our garden have a field day: a dead mouse. How the mouse ended up dead just on this spot is unclear. It could have been dropped out of the claws of a hawk. Hawks frequently hunt in this area. It could also have been laid down there by one of the many … Read more
The road on this picture goes in circles. The lamps do not work. There comes no electricity out of the grey box on the left side on the ground. This is an empty piece of land at the border of the sea between Bolnuevo and Puerto de Mazarrón. To the right is the Playa Canina … Read more
In Spain, the school holidays start halfway through the month of June and finish halfway through September. So it’s quite a challenge what to do with all the school kids during these three months. You can send your kids to the holiday apartment of the grandparents on the coast. But still, what can the grandparents … Read more
With an outfit that prevents them from getting any further underwater than their chest and with their buckets, scoops, sieves, rakes, and wheelbarrows they finally arrived a la playa, at the beach. We picked a spot with shallow deep water and low waves. They were shy from the water in the beginning, but in the … Read more
We discovered a footpath from the house to the Country Club de Mazarrón. This ‘club’ is an urbanizacion of immigrants. Mainly from the UK. Although there also seem to live some German and Dutch immigrants. Crossing a hill we had to pass between two large huertas (orchards) with very old vines rich with grapes. The … Read more
The Asociación de Vecinos (neighborhood association) de Zarzaquemada in Leganés (a suburb of Madrid) issues a monthly magazine called La Palabra (The Word). Its distribution is free. Nothing in La Palabra’s issue 366 (17 de Marzo de 2018) about bingo or shuffleboard. The cover of the magazine features the battles over pensions and feminism that in … Read more
Not so long ago, there lived someone in Spain who accused all the Spaniards to be lazy. This is false. Spain is a very industrious nation. Take for instance the artificial grass you see in the picture and which is located somewhere along the boulevard of Puerto de Mazarrón. It’s green and will not get … Read more