Category Archives: From a Foreign Field

Reports and thoughts from places and events outside the UK. From festivals to nature walks, events to everyday life.

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Sunrise and the roundabout?

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The sun is shining in Jerez. Everyone tells me how much it has cooled down, but twenty-eight degrees celsius is hot enough for me. It was ten degrees higher and the heat is, apparently, set to return by the end … Continue reading

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Around and around….

…we go. Today, 2nd May, 2016, the decree ordering the dissolution of the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament, was ratified by King Felipe VI, with the endorsement of the President of the Congress of Deputies.   The Spanish Constitution states“if … Continue reading

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Patios de los Naranjos

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In Jerez right now the jacaranda trees haven’t yet begun to bloom, but already the heavy buds are forming. There is still blossom on the orange trees and their perfume is intoxicating. A ‘patio de los naranjos’, the regular spacing … Continue reading

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Jerez Archeology

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It already seems so long ago that I was enjoying the flamenco in Jerez.  This is, in part, because of the apparent dislocation in time when travelling from one country and one home to another, but it’s also because so … Continue reading

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Contrasts

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As society today becomes more unequal we seem to be moving back to a future which has much in common with the age of the aristocrat. the artisan and the peasant. When in Jerez for the Festival recently I went … Continue reading