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Round the World anti-clockwise (counter-clockwise) with author Simon Michael Prior.
I’m delighted to introduce one of my favourite fun travel memoir authors this month. Simon Michael Prior has not been writing all that...
lisarosewright
Mar 30, 202310 min read


Photographic memories
I think I have a photographic memory. No, I don’t mean that I remember everything I read (I wish!), but that photographs are often the...
lisarosewright
Feb 28, 20233 min read


The many faces of our home in Galicia
I love to photograph the different seasons here in Galicia and am so lucky to live in such a photogenic spot. I don’t even have to leave...
lisarosewright
Jan 31, 20233 min read


Looking back on 2022
New Year is the traditional time for looking back on the year which is ending, and forward to the one just beginning. I’m looking forward...
lisarosewright
Jan 1, 20234 min read


Pups and puns, with writer Jacqueline Lambert
Jacqueline Lambert and the Fab Four on Monte Rosa, Italy It’s about time I did another guest blog and who better than an author whose...
lisarosewright
Nov 28, 202214 min read


Travelling around
Glorious Scottish scenery Anyone who has been following me on Facebook will know that we have now returned home from a mammoth,...
lisarosewright
Oct 30, 20225 min read


Between castles and the sea
The castle on Holy Island, Northumberland We’ve had a fabulous time exploring Britain this September. There is so much to see and do. Our...
lisarosewright
Sep 30, 20223 min read


Over the border
The Fortaleza de Valença As you know, due to unfortunate circumstances, we didn’t make it to Tui last month for hubby’s birthday. Now, he...
lisarosewright
Aug 31, 20225 min read


A blog about home.
My July blog was going to be about our trip to Tui in the south of Galicia, a place we’d never visited – and still haven’t. Circumstances...
lisarosewright
Jul 31, 20225 min read


Working Away
It's a hard life - Workaway, lazing on a beach somewhere We discovered Workaway, or one of its sister organisations, back in 2007 when we...
lisarosewright
Jun 29, 20225 min read


(Honorary) Galician Writers' Day, a celebration
May 17th was Galician Literature Day (Día de las Letras Galegas) here in Northwest Spain. The day, which is a Galician holiday, was...
lisarosewright
May 31, 20226 min read


Island hopping in the Atlantic
Ons Island was a delight from first view. We sat on the open deck of the small ferry, the wind tugging my cap and blowing through my thin...
lisarosewright
Apr 28, 20226 min read


Springing forward
The banks of the Miño We did a different route for our Sunday walk this week. “I’m fed up with hills,” I said. From our A Casa do Campo,...
lisarosewright
Mar 31, 20224 min read


February is bursting out all over.
A Casa do Campo I know it's not spring quite yet but it’s difficult to hold fire in the garden (as I know I really should) when the...
lisarosewright
Mar 1, 20224 min read


Talking fat dogs and French estates with Beth Haslam
Not so fat dogs in beautiful France Beth Haslam is the author of the Fat Dogs and French Estates series of travelogue memoirs. She has a...
lisarosewright
Jan 27, 202210 min read


Happy 2022 from beautiful green Galicia
2021 ends, as the sun rises on a new year over A Casa do Campo It’s that time again, to look back on another year and to look forward to...
lisarosewright
Dec 31, 20215 min read


Sweet chestnuts, kiwi fruits and a lost huntsman
November mists November is chestnut time here in Galicia. I vividly remember the first year we stayed in a (icy cold) rented flat here;...
lisarosewright
Nov 27, 20215 min read


Galicia is a World
To paraphrase the Ourensano poet, Vicente Risco, ‘although she is small, Galicia contains a whole world, and each time you return, you...
lisarosewright
Oct 30, 20215 min read


Shelves of preserves, and poached pears
September is always a busy time at A Casa do Campo. Firstly, we have the tomatoes ripening madly and needing preserving. This rather...
lisarosewright
Sep 29, 20212 min read


August in Galicia
August has been a rather significant month for us since we arrived in Galicia. It was our eleventh wedding anniversary yesterday; eleven...
lisarosewright
Aug 29, 20212 min read
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