OK, I did promise to write about the bad back in pre-history (1980) San Sebastian when I first came ashore. Fair cop. I also said that there was a lot. (Before I get trolled, Part I deals with the good) […]
My very good friend, Loreto Aramendi, is a wonderfully talented organist who plays at the Santa Maria Basilica in the old part of San Sebastian. She also tours all over the world, offering organ concerts wherever she is invited to […]
(Ed. Note: The following is a brief excerpt from a forthcoming memoir that details the author’s life in Ituren, a town in the Baztan Valley. This passage describes her first sighting of the valley, twenty years ago). Something strange was […]
So close, just 20kms or 15 minutes by car from Donosti….and yet so far. Iparralde. You won’t find it on any official map but all Basques know what and where it is: The “North Part” of The Basque Country. It […]
The Basque language seems inscrutable! When you first look at Basque language it appears an unfathomable language full of X’s, Z’s and K’s – all those letters that you don’t want to be left with after a game of Scrabble! It […]
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