First the plug: This is the last day to vote for Moratinos Life in The Best of Blogs travel and leisure category. I am chuffed to have so m...

Massively small things have been going on, with plumbers, carpenters, pilgrims, neighbors, and dogs traipsing in and out for days. Massive m...

The best thing about living here, aside from the Moratinos natives, is the pilgrims.  I know I am whining a good bit these days about bad pi...

As if you haven´t had enough of candidates and elections lately, look what´s landed in my Comments box: Charlie Blockhead said... YOU ARE...

Strange but true: There´s lots of great spinach around, but no one here eats it as salad. We had a nice spinach salad two nights ago, and Th...

So much can happen in a week if you just go away. I went from The Peaceable a week ago and had a very memorable and physical series of adven...

We now live at The Peaceable full-time, so of course that means I am off to someplace else. Tomorrow morning I´m getting on the train north ...