Recently someone told us of an outside-the-box way of preparing a Spanish tortilla de patatas. Rather than cutting up peppers and cooking them inside the tortilla, what if you put the tortilla inside the peppers? An inverted Spanish tortilla!
When a friend of ours who has a little vegetable farm gave us a bag of enormous gorgeous green peppers, we knew we had to try this recipe.
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Every year in the harbor of Colindres, they hold a Carrera de Artefactos Navegables, which translates to “Sailable Artifacts Race”. Basically they race handmade contraptions that float, very often involving plastic barrels normally used in the salting process of the town’s anchovy industry. Rowing is a big sport in northern Spain, dating back hundreds of years when fishermen rowed out to see to hunt whales. This race puts sort of a comical twist on the sport.
We saw the event the first year that we lived here, missed two years, and then went again this year. I’m always blown away by the creativity and detail of the designs, which are only meant to float and impress for about an hour. Prizes are awarded for creativity and originality as well as speed around the course, with various different categories, depending on the number of occupants the craft can hold. Below are some photos I took of the participants in 2009, and a high definition video that should give you an idea of the fun of watching the event.
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On Saturday, we went out to lunch and then for a coffee and liqueur before going to see the artefactos navegables race down at the harbor. I didn’t bring my camera out to the restaurant, so I had to walk home to get my new video camera and meet up with them at the café for coffee. I took the following photos with my HD video camera. The quality is superb.
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Come with me on a journey across the galaxy to the small forested planet of Citronia. In the spirit of the early Apollo missions, we won’t actually be landing on the surface, just some orbital reconnaissance. This planet certainly has some nice beaches…
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