Trapped… in a List
In this week’s Camino de Ítaca a different look at the upcoming regional and municipal elections here in Spain. A long term emmigrant’s perspective on voting here in Extremadura. Click…
La Virgen de los Guiris
Welcoming the Virgen In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a look at one of the more hermetic aspects of Spanish culture. It’s a facet that is impenetrable and somewhat incomprehensible…
Socks with Sandals
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a look at an unusual fashion statement, complete with fearsome canines in tow. A Spanish comedian once said that the Spanish would rather give…
The Procession of the Holy Ice Cream
Creepy Ice Cream A precipitous ice cream stop in today’s Camino a Ítaca. In Spain, often calendar dates have more sway and are more important than what is actually happening…
Sidewalk detours…
A Londoner and a Canadian were walking down the street when… Sounds like the beginning of a joke in this week’s Camino a Ítaca which looks at sidewalk blockades that…
Whose Criteria?
Jurramacho carnival in Montanchez In this week’s Camino a Ítaca it’s carnival time in the mountaintop village of Montanchez here in Extremadura. Up among your hanging Jamóns it’s not your…
Remember the Applause for the Healthcare Workers?
…This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks at the dangerous slide towards privatizing a world class health system. Click over to read the original piece in Spanish in el HOY or…
Showing their True Colors
Have mercy! Been waiting for the bus all day on the Camino a Ítaca. Things are going to get partisan ugly this election year here in Spain and a simple…
January’s Icy Blues
It’s cold out there on the Camino a Ítaca this week. The cover of a New Yorker issue sparked a refection on what has brought me so far from my…
Pedro’s Cakes
Brioche cake In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a cursory look at the Spanish government’s reaction to the ongoing inflation crisis that is sweeping across the world. Click over to…