In Navarra it’s high summer, very high temperatures, and high time for a fiesta! And at the San Martìn fiestas, as in so many other towns and villages throughout Navarra, high up above the throng of fiesta-goers are the heads of the gigantes – in this case the four kings and queens. Traditionally, the the giant kings walk – or even dance – thanks to a burly-built human inside each of them!
Continue reading →Kilbride Bay is the small sandy beach across the road from the walled garden ; and Littorina obtusata is …
Continue reading →Jonathan & Denise > Here’s the second patchwork of images from our holiday in Navarra – named after the Seat Arona car we hired for the second month. Family This is what we come here for : Torre de Peña – Antiguo Torre is Spanish for ‘tower’, but Peña is from the Aragonese language – and therefore ultimately from Latin, and means a ‘rocky place’. [The Pennines of northern England, and the Appenines of Italy both have the same linguistic root.] The village of Torre de Peña is to be found east of the village of Caseda and south of … Continue reading →
Today we set out to explore, for the first time, the two most remote northern valleys of Navarra : Valle de Roncal y Valle de Salazar .
Continue reading →A gallery of our first visit to our first grandchild, Enaut, and a taste of our first holiday together in many years, in Navarra – November 2017, Spain.
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