Wordless Wednesday: On to the job

Avinguda de Ramon Folch, Girona (Catalonia)

Plaça Major, Banyoles

The central square of Banyoles after a shower

Braids and tiles

Boathouse Janeret

The Man in White

Avda. dels Països Catalans, Banyoles (Catalonia)

The Woman in White

Near the Plaça Major, Banyoles (Catalonia)

Wordless Wednesday: Sunglasses

Passeig de la Indústria, Banyoles (Catalonia)

Street corner

Plaça Major / Carrer de Girona, Banyoles (Catalonia)

After the shopping

Washing in the canal

The town of Banyoles boasts a medieval network of small canals (‘recs’) constructed by the monks of the monastery further inland to reconduct water of the lake to their allotments.

Some inhabitants still use the ‘rec’ as a wash basin (‘safareig’) that every village and town traditionally had and where women used to gather to wash, and exchange their experiences as well as the latest gossip.

Trio on the Plaça Major

Dancing in the street

During a festive day people dance the sardana, Catalonia’s national dance, accompanied by the cobla. A dance, normally in a circle, open to everyone who wants to join it, while the circle widens. It was summer last year, since then sadly no sardana’s have been performed.

Throwback Thursday: Tasting

Wordless Wednesday: Big Bear and Little Girl

Plaça de Catalunya, Banyoles (Catalonia)

Encounter

Ray of sunshine

Carrer de la Llibertat, Banyoles (Catalonia)

Everyday she sits before the shop watching people going by. Today it was rather cold, so she just put her chair in the middle of the pavement to enjoy the sun.

Mother and daughter

Throwback Thursday: The children in the mill

This month it is two years ago that we moved from Dordrecht (Netherlands) to Banyoles (Catalonia), but I still have lots of photographs of my former hometown to show you. So that is what I will do on Throwback Thursday.