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Personal accounts of the lifestyle, farming traditions and local fiestas in the Basque Country villages of the Spanish Pyrenees.

Post women and chemists in Ituren

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 24 March 2017 / Published in Basque Lifestyle
Josetxo's chemists in Ituren
The chemists in Ituren I was a little concerned when Josetxo (who runs the chemists in Ituren) said he would leave the pills I had ordered hanging on the outside handle of the chemist door in case I dropped by after he headed off for his evening run. Going to the chemists sometimes needs a
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The Basque Language – Onomatopoeias and other Idiosyncrasies

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Georgina Howard
Saturday, 04 February 2017 / Published in Basque Lifestyle, The Basque Language
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 is so totally different from any other language and where, in Europe, a drop of
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Ituren Carnivals – and a Brummy in their midst

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 28 January 2015 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Me, Marion and Iñaki with out neighbours in Ituren
I know, I know, I have written about the Ituren carnivals many times before (see links below) but the reaction is so raw, so overwhelming  each single time we participate that I feel compelled to put it down. They are not my people, I am from a ‘middle-class’ Birmingham suburb with Accessorise and John Lewis down
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Beautiful Basque Country Farmhouse B & B – with a tortoise on the tap

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 29 May 2014 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle
Cottage in the Pyrenees, Navarre, Iaulin Borda,
Thirteen years ago our beautiful Basque Country farmhouse B & B in Ituren was nothing but a tiny mountain barn with a rustic outdoor toilet and a tiny brass tortoise on an outside tap! Once a haunt of sheep and wild ferrets (and a couple of grotesque toads that centered themselves up maliciously each night
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The importance of ‘work’ in the Basque Culture

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 09 April 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Spanish-English differences
The Baztan valley - making hay while the sun shines
As I dashed out of my neighbour’s farm Amatxi (the grandmother) waved to me from the door ‘Que trabajes mucho!’ she said; a translation from the Basque ‘lan haunditz egin’ meaning ‘I hope you have lots of work!’. She wasn’t being funny, nor making subtle remarks about my lazy ways, (I don’t think), she was
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Cider Houses in the Basque Country .. and a few less trees

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 15 February 2013 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle
Cider drinking at the mushroom fiestas in Elgorriaga
For some reason cider has become the theme of the week … and not a drop has yet passed my lips . .. I swear! My partner, the village lawyer, always seems to get interesting cases when the Basque cider houses open (usually between January and April) although I have to admit, the  ‘wild-boar-in-the-boot-of-the-car’ case during last
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