A new year doesn’t quite feel like a new year in the northern hemisphere, I guess mostly because everything gets jump-started in September after summer. The good thing about that is is the whole new year’s expectation-thing sort of loses water. Which ironically is my New Year’s resolution, no more expectations, they hurt my heart… Read More Salamanca and Sweet Celebrations
And there she goes! Speeding by with no intention to stop. The past year has been jam-packed, almost as packed as a tomato festival in Spain but more of that later. Thankfully though, the summer has been easy breezy. The first week of July we had some family visit us and for the rest of… Read More Raf Tomato
As the sunlight fades earlier with each passing week and the smell of coconut tanning lotion slowly dissipates, summer draws its last breath. Okay, not quite as dramatic. Temperatures are still dancing around 30 degrees, but the daze of summer has been replaced with a get-up-and-go buzz. Schools have started, meetings have been had, races… Read More Dragon fruit
We’ve been in Spain for just over two years now and this month it will be five years since we’ve left South Africa. The time has flown by and clearly has no intention of slowing down, although there were times, many times, where it felt like someone had pressed pause during all the suffocating parts.… Read More Tango
It’s August and here in Europe the summer is in full swing. And with summer come the delicious varieties of stone fruit. The latest buzz word in the stone fruit world is of course Queen Garnet. Presumably so-called because it originates from Queensland, Australia and the Garnet part…well now that is what got us all excited.… Read More Queen Garnet
