Borines Travel Guide

 AsturArcadia Says:  To round everything off, a couple of jaded views of 'the morning after the night before'.On the seond day of the fiesta, after the processions with San Roque to and from the church, there is really nothing else apart from the dreaded and dreadful bands late in the evening.... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  Sunday morning. We prayed for a genial thunderstorm overnight, to drown the noiseome and loathsome bands, but to no avail. Tam and I went for an early morning constitutional, up to El Trechoriu and back. We timed our return so as to be able to pohotograph San Roque (and... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  While the eucalyptus is being raised, various other activities are in progress. The 'gaitera' (girlie playing the bagpipes), for example.And over at the barbecues the grilling has begun . . . 

 AsturArcadia Says:  To get that eucalyptus vertical takes well over an hour. Although the light was gradually failing, the cloud effects were, towards the end, quite spectacular. 

 AsturArcadia Says:  The focus of the action now moves to the field ear the church, where after a good deal of manoeuvring (and creating a fair bit of traffic congestion in the process), the eucalyptus is laid down, in readiness for the spectacular raising procedure.But first, let us meet the... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  On this page we take a long, long look at the felled eucalyptus as it passes AsturArcadia's house and heads for the field near the church on 15 August 2009 - one of the two hottest days of the summer (the other was a Monday in early September). Your local correspondent was... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  This takes place on 15 and 16 August. On the afternoon of the 15th one of the tallest eucalyptus trees in the district is cut down, and carried/dragged manually to the field adjacent to the church, where the fiesta is held. It is then raised, using several ladders and... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  On a misty autumnal morning familiar objects take on new guises . . . 

 AsturArcadia Says:  Miracles of engineering, and yes, I know you can find them everywhere. But what better place to savour them than Buriñes on a crisp, dew-laden autumnal morning! 

 AsturArcadia Says:  I have no idea what their biological name is, in Spanish, English or Latin. All I know is that the first of them flower around 15 August, and they continue for a brief three weeks. Some of my neighbours have given me bulbs, so hopefully in summer 2010 I will be able to... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  'Azken Iarrosa' ('The Last Rose of San Martín') is a lovely Basque ballad lamenting the relentless passage of time and the nostalgia of hopeless love.This page is dedicated to Montse, Mari-José and Núria, three precious roses. 

 AsturArcadia Says:  Wild daffodils are locally quite common between late February and early April. 

 AsturArcadia Says:  The primrose must be one of the most emblematic and common flowers in northwest Spain in springtime. The first usually flower in mid-December, the climax comes in February and Match, and they finally disappear in late April and early May. During the summer months it is... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  Now restored as an Asturian arts and crafts workshop and shop, the former village school (for girls), built in 1892, is situated about 200 m up the valley beyond Bar Santi, and about 400 m below the mineral water factory, on the right of the road as you head towards the Alto... 

 AsturArcadia Says:  If bees were to disappear from this planet, humanity would only survive for four years longer. Bee-keepers worldwide are concerned about the way their swarms (and harvests) are diminishing in size. The same is true here in Buriñes, where at present only two families - as far...