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Galicia Spain (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I have posted very little on this blog over the last 2 to 3 months, mainly because time has not permitted. But in addition to that I have had little in the way of useful or interesting information to post. At present I am waiting to see how things pan out with the new Ryanair hub at Leeds Bradford airport. At present there is no sign of a flight schedule to anywhere in Galicia, but with the...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Leading Argentine banking conglomerate Grupo Financiero Galicia reported on Tuesday a third-quarter net profit of 51.3 million pesos ($13.36 million), compared with a 66.3 million peso profit a year ago.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Spanish team Xacobeo Galicia announced today that it signed Rodrigo García for the 2010 season. "The team believes his characteristics and experience will help in stage races," said the team in a press release. Garcìa became professional in 2005 with Kaiku and then rode with Fuerteventura in 2007 and Extremadura in 2008. This year, he rode for Italian team Miche-Silver...
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... is becoming possible. Now it is a reality for some whose families came from Lviv/Lvov/Lemberg (was Galicia, now Ukraine), thanks to Gesher Galicia's "Lviv House and Street Photography Project." See it here . When a Dutch-born teacher, now working in Germany, volunteered to do work during his summer in Lviv, the project took off. For four weeks in July, Dick Koops covered...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Gustavo Dominguez has renewed his contract with the Spanish Pro Continental Xacobeo Galicia team one year for the 2010 season. The 29-year-old Spaniard, who turned professional in 2002 with Carvalhelhos - Boavista, has been with Xacobeo Galicia since 2007. Dominguez has also raced for Orbea and Relax - Bodysol during his eight-year professional career. Dominguez had a rough start to...
Robin Wood (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
This is going to be a rather picture heavy blog post but I hope it is of interest. We'll start with a look at traditional management of the chestnut pollards then visit a museum which was the highlight of my time in Galicia. The scene in the picture below has become unusual in Europe in the last 200 years but in medieval times managing trees this way was very common. This would be called wood...
Tourism of Cardiff (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Spain has a wide variety of peninsular towns and a variety of languages such as Galician, Castilian, Basque and Catalan, without citing the Asturian bable, High Aragonese, the stop “singing” of! Montanes and other forms of communication. Statue Breogan the background the Roman lighthouse known as Hercules Tower. This diversity extends to the history, economy, culture, [...]
Robin Wood (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... In 2002 and she finally settled in Galecia with Lluis and concentrated on weaving the traditional Galician folk textiles. Anna makes lovely scarves and I bought one for Nicola, she is particularly interested in natural dying and weaving with natural fibres particularly linen. This is a small version of the traditional Galician farm sack. Lluis was for 19 years a monk before training...
Robin Wood (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I am back from a fantastic time in Galicia, Spain. I have lots of pictures and some very interesting things to share which will take several posts so I'll start with the thing that paid for the trip which was teaching on a short course on internet marketing for craftspeople. This is Cristosend Galicia home of Lluis and Anna who organised the course. Their home is the far right building...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... the annual Barcelona festival and this one-off event, which will be called Sónar Galicia. Like the Sónar Festival in Barcelona, Sónar Galicia will have a Sónar by Day with a music line-up, and a multimedia and audiovisual area with a special emphasis on Galician artists. The Sónar by Night stages will feature the latest leading lights in electronica....
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Gesher Galicia will hold a regional meeting open to all hosted by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington on Sunday, November 15. There is no charge for non-members for the two programs presented. If you are new to Jewish genealogy and want to see some of excellent programming presented by the JGSGW, try to attend. Remember that JGSGW will be hosting the 2011 IAJGS International Conference...
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
This is perhaps one of the strangest albums I have in my collection. An odd mixture of genres, (not quite classical, not quite folk, not quite avant-garde) Night in Galicia is an album which takes you deep into the Russian psyche and beyond. Alien upon the ears at first listen, the songs within demand your solitude and your attention and upon further examination, it seems there is something...
Havana Times, ope (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Spain's Galician Audiovisual Consortium will increase its support for cinema in Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela and Andalusia, as part of the Roots Program, by increasing financing in 2010 for co-productions and the holding of cycles with the benefited films.
cousas d'opaco (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Palabros: dise zorra, non trineo · Galicia Profunda
ComingAnarchy.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Previously: Which Iberia? – Which Alexandria? – Which Albania? – Which African Nation? – Which Guinea? – Which Thebes? – Which Georgia? If you thumb through texts of European history, you’re bound to find references to places that go by the names Galatia, Galicia, and Galatea. These names may look similar, but they have existed [...]
