The tradition includes exchanging lottery with family, extended famlly and friends, usually ten euros. A person selected to exchange lottery means that is " important" to you.
I generally agree with what you say about lotteries, @henrythedog, but I think that in this case the cost is spread much more evenly across all strata of society. Not only poor and stupid people play the Christmas lottery. It is a huge tradition...
The live show is always great entertainment though this student made an error ( due to high stress surely).
https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20241222/loteria-navidad-2024-nina-canta-falso-gordo-genera-confusion/16383034.shtml
The singing children of...
The shifting demographics of those walking Caminos over the years are quite remarkable. In the early days of the Camino revival it was very much a younger person's activity. There are some detailed statistics from Roncesvalles from 1987. Those...
450,000? You are way out of date. The running total so far this year is very nearly half a million! About half of those have walked the Camino Frances. But most of those only on the section after Sarria.
I visited recently the very north of Portugal ( concelho de Melgaço) and bars situation in the rural were more or less the same than in rural Galicia ( very few). One more thing in common with Galicia.
I am from rural Galicia (concello de Aranga Coruña). Mine and concellos around like Irixoa, Monfero, Guitiriz don' t have bars except a few ones. Don' t forget dogs.
Fifty years ago there were stil many villages in Galicia without a road so no possibility of criminals accessing by car. People left houses open when they went out to work in their fields. And no problems with " defense of honor" like in...
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