Michel

Michel

Bizum in Spain: Faster Than iDEAL

When we moved to Galicia, we were used to iDEAL for pretty much everything back in the Netherlands. Splitting a dinner bill, paying a friend back, sending money to family, iDEAL handled it all. In Spain, the equivalent is Bizum,…

The Abandoned Villages of Galicia

Drive far enough into Galicia’s interior and the road eventually narrows, the signal drops, and the villages start to feel less like places people live and more like places people used to live. A roofless stone house here, a collapsed…

Vultures of Galicia

On clear days, we don’t have to go looking for vultures at all. We just have to look up. From our own house in the village, we regularly watch them circling on the thermals rising off the canyons nearby, wings…

Magosto: Galicia’s Chestnut Festival

A note on how we wrote this: magosto is celebrated all over Galicia, but it is especially strong here in the south of Lugo, close to where we live. What follows on the local flavor of the celebration comes from…