I'm singing in the Rain

The river Avia flows into the RIver Miño close to Ribadavia. Using every minute of sun to full capacity ;)

The famous Galician rain. It seems like it is simply never going to stop! The river rises and rises. Luckily we don't have to fear to drown as we are living in our tower high above everything else. Well, maybe the wind will carry us away instead. 
This blog turns more and more into a fotography-blog. I hope you don't mind. There are just not as many exciting thing happening as in summer.
Here you can see some summer/winter comparison. The river turned into a stream with pretty dangerous currents in some places!

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Last weekend we went to the "Xantar" in Ourense. It is some kind of food convention. Xantar simply means "eat" in the Galician language. We could try and buy several foods from Galicia, Portugal and this years guest country Cuba. Gwen, me and Sabrina could not resist to try the mega-pulpo. It tasted like plastic and was pretty hard to chew ;)

The weekend before there was a so called "Ruada" in one of the bars in Ribadavia. We participated in a little workshop of the traditional Galician dance. Later there was music, a lottery and food, but we went home quite early because we felt we would lower the average age a little too much.
Sabrina organised a three day long crash course of Italian. What I will remember for sure from this course is the word "tartaruga" which means turtle. We listened to a song called "La bella tartaruga". Very catchy.
And, certainly, the famous Italian gestures! 

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"Downside up"