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Basque Rural Sports “Herri Kirolak”
The Montaña Alavesa is a mountainous and sparsely populated region in the southern reaches of Alava. It is home to a couple of thousand people scattered around the numerous little villages. These villages have changed little in the last few hundred years and you might think that not much happens in these parts. But where [...]
The Alboka
In the small, sleepy, Alaves village of Otazu you can occasionally hear the curiously mournful sound of the Alboka. The Alboka is a uniquely Basque instrument which sounds a little like a sharper version of the Scottish pipes.
In the shade of some chestnut trees you can find Osses’s Alboka workshop. Osses has dedicated the last [...]
Why bother learning languages?
We’ve all at some time thought, wouldn’t it just be easier if we all spoke the same language? In this TED Talk, Wade Davis responds, “great! Lets make that language Yorba, let’s make that language Cantonese, lets make it Kogi. And you’ll suddenly discover what it would be like to be unable to speak your [...]
Ondartxo Center of Maritime Culture
In this three minute video our intention was to illustrate the picturesque sea port of Pasaia and express something of the aims of Ondartxo Center of Maritime Culture, The video was recorded spontaneously during a visit to Ondartxo and edited in what amounted to a days work.
Ondartxo Center of Maritime Museum – Pasaia, Basque Country [...]
Perfect day on Txindoki (1436m) Guipuzkoa
It’s for days like this that I keep going back to the hills. This month we’ve seen some pretty wild weather in Euskal Herria and in pursuit of a good day I’ve been out in it all. It has on occasion been uncomfortable. The writer Patricia Moyes said, “I simply cannot understand the passion that [...]
Fiesta de los Momotxorros. Altsasua, Navarra
The fiesta of Los Momotxorros in Altsasua, Navarra, is one of the highlights of my year. This for me is real carnival. A fiesta whose origins go back to Pagan times, it marks a turning point in the winter and the coming of Spring. It’s a fiesta where our demons are paraded before us, named, [...]
Frozen Dog
I had this notion to accept the fact that February is a slack month and to put it to good use climbing mountains, taking photos and recording it all for Bizipozatourists on this blog. But, not only is it a slack month it’s also colder than a well diggers ass.
I’m Scottish though and I’m hardly [...]
Frozen Man
Yesterday’s blizzard seems to have blown through to be replaced with freezing fog. No excuse for not venturing out then. A five minute drive took us to the picturesque medieval walled-town of Antoñana which shelters under the prow of Soila (990m)
Soila is an impressive mountain on a clear day. Today it was shrouded in mist.
This [...]
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Walking Man
I felt a certain empathy with this cold but determined pilgrim I met on my way today.
Yesterday’s crisp sunshine had inspired me to take to the hills. It had therefore been a brisk surprise on opening the front door this morning to face a blizzard. So, with something of the stoicism of the walking man [...]
Ibaialde Ikastola, Sartaguda, Navarra
Following a night of bad craziness in El Valle de Baztan (See previous entry) I found myself on the road once again. This time we travelled from the north of Navarra were things are profoundly Basque to the town of Sartaguda in the south where the tradition of speaking Basque (Euskera) is not quite so [...]
