No sooner has the mad March hare loped off but its burrow is taken by the vernal equivalent, the Easter Hare. More popularly celebrated these days as the Easter Bunny, this is not a hispanic custom—its origins being in northern European tradition—but the image of the fast, furry, floppy-eared figure of folklore is more closely […]
A week before the 2019 programme of La Ruta de Don Federico gets underway, I take a short ‘busman’s holiday’ downriver and over the nearby Portuguese border, where I find two bodegas of historical character and charm. Little more than an hour west of Salamanca, the River Duero, one of the the Iberian peninsula’s greatest […]
The German public channel ZDF premiered the latest in its series of made-for-television films with the theme of summertime set in beautiful cities last week – previous settings include Paris, Amsterdam and Prague – and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Salamanca made a glorious backdrop for the romantic comedy Ein Sommer in Salamanca. The […]