cloister ceiling at San Zoilo, Carrion de los Condes We talk about running away, Paddy and me. We want to go to Venice, or Turkey, or ma...

The Old Teacher House, demolished this week to make room for the new bodega restaurant. May, a month of non-stop company. People I love,...

Ticks are bad this year. It is spring, and our dogs have ticks. I have sprayed them, collared them, brushed them, and washed them, and still...

"In Castile, the landscape is in the sky."  -- Delibes The sisters swept back to America on Friday, and Dael the Scotsman swept...

Wow, what a week it was! Two sisters who´d never seen Spain before. Ten days, and an entire country to show them. So here is what we did a...

Enough about me. Time to get back to Moratinos, and Sahagún, the nearest good-sized town, where a very wet Holy Week just wound up. In Ame...

The air is full of springtime and thunder and yeah, some excitement. Holy week is here, and the shutters of several long-shut houses are rol...