Ribeira Sacra

Israel asasina, a Xunta patrocina Israel murders, the Xunta sponsors

No sur de Lugo e noutros lugares de Galicia, seguimos manifestando contra o xenocidio e apartheid israelí e apoiando a liberación de Palestina.

Local artist Jesús Benavides carved this self-representation of what living with MS feels like.

I think it belongs in a museum. He responded, “It’s already there, in my street museum.”

Much of our homestead progress is punctuated by half victories.

• Toilet installed, leak in the shower
• Kitchen sink working, still no tile or stovetop
• Filling in ditches in the yard, perimetrical fence will take another month and Alqo naps in the street.

Both of us feeling exhausted, Patricia rightly suggested we take a break yesterday to do a hike. Though we didn’t really hike, we did park at Igrexa de San Martiño da Cova not far from the town of Escairón (O Saviñao) and walked down the paved road to praia fluvial A Cova for the first time since moving here.

We had the beach to ourselves, and on the way down caught glimpses of Cabo do Mundo, a famous bend in the Miño river a bit like Horsehoe Bend in Arizona. Here’s the left hand side of it.