The 4th World Market at Fuentespalda

The Amas de Casa groups from villages in the Matarraña region, as well as many other organisations, each had a stall at the IV Mercado del Mundo at Fuentespalda.



The theme for the Amas de Casa groups was to produce a regional postre or sweet dish. These were offered for sale throughout the day and in the afternoon the dishes were photographed by a professional photographer for the 2013 calendar for the area.


On offer from Torre del Compte were Torrijas and Vino de Nueces. Basically Torrijas are white bread soaked in milk then squeezed out, shaped, coated in beaten egg then deep fried. And who said the Mediterranean diet was healthy! But they are delicious!! The Vino de Nueces, or Nut Wine, was also home made.

To see the events of the day click on the link HERE.

You never know what will be on offer at these events and the final entertainment of the day was a display of oriental dancing by Ana Lorenz.

To see Ana's performance, click HERE.

Quite a day out to remember.

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Watch the video of the historic event on YouTube by clicking HERE

Acupuncture! Stop smoking!

Over two months ago a friend of ours underwent a course of acupuncture in order to kick his habit of smoking those superb small Spanish cigars.

He was very determined to quit and felt the pins applied
to both ears really helped curb the cravings!

Has it worked?

Now, after 2 months...


...no!

Autumn at last!

It's autumn at last - well, at least this tree thinks so!

Summer seems to have hung around for quite a while this year...

...but who's complaining?

Another sunset, 9 days later.

Another bonfire!

This time the bonfire is to celebrate the eve of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, (click on the title above for more info), and today is a holiday!

There was a good turnout and the bonfire was splendid.

The bonfire is held traditionally in the area known as La Co-operativa - this is where the olives are brought later in the year to be processed.


The Amas de Casa, (Housewives group), provided the cakes and cava which went down a treat.

It was a perfect evening with the (almost) full moon beaming down from a starlit sky.

Both Alena and Margaret were busy all evening serving cava and cake.

And to continue the celebrations, a very good friend has brought a cake! It symbolises the robe worn by Our Lady and tastes delicious!

It seemed a pity to cut into and then eat such a work of art but we forced ourselves!

Strictly Come...

It's back - and so is Brucie!

It must be autumn - (but not here, yet).

Margaret has been bitten by the celeb dancing bug and now must watch EVERY show including the daily "updates" on BBC2.

Russell Grant will go all the way!