So I am in lockdown with a teenager. You should have a little bit of background history here. She is almost 16, but I have been separated from her father for most of her life. She lives with me, rushing […]
(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 […]
And so, I am asked, what is happening up there on your mountain top? What has changed? And I have to sit and think for a moment. Holding back my thoughts from taking flight with the birds singing is the […]
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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