First of all, STILL not official confirmation of whether Marina has indeed been landed with the worst job in Spain, and is in fact ‘La Nueva Presidenta de la Comunidad’!
We are avoiding bringing up the matter with the porter, who is bound to know, working on the assumption that what you haven’t been told in person, might still not be true!
Secondly, some of you know about the ‘Notes in Spanish Forest’, 120 cherry trees in Asturias bought with proceeds from the sale of our ‘Crisis Collection’ pack, over at our Spanish learning sister-site Notes in Spanish. Well, the trees have just been planted, and the charity, Fapas, has put a really nice photo-story up on their site about the big event. Do have a look.
Marina has made a Spanish video about it too, here.
Have a great weekend! – Ben
Jon
5 Jun 09 at 7:35 pm
good one Marina and Ben (and of course Leo). That looks like a beautiful spot, I loved the thick mist in the pictures.
Couldn’t read it all, so I’m wondering “why cherry trees? is that a native tree?”
Anyway, it’s nice to see that people are doing something like this. Keep up the good work.
Graham
6 Jun 09 at 10:10 am
Cherry tress for the bears isn’t it. Great story. Have you ever been to Muniellos in Asturias Ben, they only let about 12 people in a day and it is one of the last remaining areas of virgin forest in Spain. Bears roam free too!!
jof
9 Jun 09 at 11:02 am
Looking at the pictures I can almost smell the damp cool earth – strangely something I miss most from a relatively dry Barcelona.
ValenciaSon
9 Jun 09 at 11:55 am
Marina, is that why you read Obama’s The Audacity of Hope?
mdoherty
1 Jul 09 at 12:10 pm
Great work and the photos look great. You could say they were the cherry on the cake.
Everyone who has read the Obama book should also check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=fvst
John Shackleton
8 Dec 09 at 8:59 pm
FAPAS have just won an award for their work
http://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=529516