Recipe for traditional almond cakes (polvorones)

Here's another delicious recipe by Clara Leis. This time it's polvorones or almond cakes, traditional  Christmas cookies from Spain that you can enjoy year round.

The Ultimate Christmas Gift: Real Estate

The Ultimate Christmas Gift: Real Estate

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Galicia segue sendo unica--Galicia is still unique

Sit back and enjoy the Galician images, words and music!

Listen.

Butterfly.

What do you see?

Manor house.

What do you see?

And streets?

Time.

Galicia.

Do you feel it?

So much left for us to tell.

So much left for you to live.

Galicia.

It remains unique.

Song "Tu gitana" by Luar na lubre

Sea of Caión: Short documentary films about Caión

 

I recently discovered some very interesting videos (in Spanish), which offer lots of historical and current information about the village of Caión and its people.

Opinions from outer-Eurozone

Some opinion articles from outside the Eurozone: 

Euro to blame for Spanish property boom and bust

The euro zone. Is this really the end?

Women's Literacy Project: new blog

Click here to visit my new blog dedicated to the Women's Literacy Project, Gulabgarh.

Selling Property Amidst the Turmoil

In the aftermath of last week’s apocalyptic announcements that Europeans are about to live through the end of their relatively short-lived Union, and in the midst of Spain’s upcoming general elections, the rightist candidate assures that the real estate bubble burst is a fiction created by the socialist party now in government.
Whether the bubble really burst or not, the truth is that there are too many empty apartments and houses sitting in the shop windows. The strong right wing candidate, who all the polls predict will be the next President, promises to reinstate tax benefits for those citizens willing to purchase a home. Newly arrived mayors (elections were in May) state that construction will reactivate the slumping economy. But consumers, alarmed by recent events, are not willing to take any investment risks.
In the meantime buyers—investors with plenty of equity—are looking for a good bargain. Sellers, however, won't give their property away at a cheap price, and so the real estate market is at a standstill and no one can say what direction it will follow. Selling property is a short-term goal that in Spain has necessarily become a medium or even long-term one.

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