After slathering on some sunscreen, I grabbed my camera and set out on a long coastal walk this morning. What follows are items that caught my eye. Come, walk with me…and be sure to check out the panoramas.

Those of you that follow my blog regularly know that I have somewhat of a fascination with timelapse videos and that I live in a town with a huge tidal basin that fills and empties with water twice a day in one of the locations on Earth with the largest difference between low and high [...]

On Saturday, Marga and her mother went to Bilbao to shop for dresses for cousin Andoni’s upcoming September wedding. I was specifically not invited, much to my delight. It was a beautiful day, so I took several long walks around town. In the evening, I went out to the little lighthouse, where [...]

Part of the wedding package that we purchased with the videographer that filmed our wedding was a “Paseo de solteros” (Singles’ stroll) that involves being filmed in scenic locations where we live walking around holding hands, giggling, smiling, caressing and generally looking “in love” to be placed at the beginning of the wedding video. [...]

On Saturday we went to the beach for the first time this year. The weather was better than any single day of 2007, so we’re off to a good start. The water was pretty icy, but amazingly refreshing after being in the sun for an hour. Nothing like going from uncomfortably hot [...]

It’s Martini season again! There’s nothing better than taking a nice stroll around town in the hot sun, ordering an icy red vermouth, and sitting on the bar’s patio to sip it. Lovely!
If you’re confused about what I mean by Martini (and the word has a very different meaning in Spain than in [...]

This car was parked outside my building today. The entire car was covered with these colorful letters. I flipped the photo 180º to get the letters upright. Pretty loud, huh?

On Saturday there was an exhibition of the local Colindres bobbin lace (bolillo) club. We went because one of our salsa dancing friends, Ana, is going to classes and participates in those events. She had an abanico, Spanish hand fan, that she was working on. It looks pretty doggone complicated to my [...]

Last weekend we went to a cheese festival, called Quesucada, in nearby Laredo. We missed it last year and regretted not going. It turned out to be nothing but a dozen vendor stands crammed too closely together such that you couldn’t see anything or walk comfortably. There was a bunch of shouting [...]

Two colorful photos I took last week. Several sets of houses around town have received new and colorful paint jobs and it has made a huge difference. They used to look old and rundown, and now they look less old and generally more happy.