Artist Reply: No, Pepe, no iban "colocados", sólo estaban ganándose un jornal. Los tiempos no están para bromas y supongo que a esta gente, que vive 20 Km. más allá de Cedeira, en mi Ortigueira natal, la comisión de festejos de Cedeira les habrá pagado comida y cena y les habrán dado -a todo tirar- dos o tres mil duros a cada uno. Cuando los reconocí y paré, mis dos amigos me saludaron efusivamente pero tras un par de minutos se disculparon y siguieron su deambular por las calles de la villa. Supongo que ya hicieron lo mismo en la mañana de ese día. Son gente trabajadora, formal y cumplidora. No necesitan quien les vigile porque saben cumplir con su obligación, "rara avis" en estos tiempos. Un abrazo.

Artist Reply: Good night, Night Owl. Just in time :-)

Artist Reply: Je, je, Alberto... nosotros nunca le llamaríamos "filarmónica" :-) Esta gente es contratada para recorrer las calles en días de fiesta y me parece que no se toman muy en serio el tema musical. No suenan como la Filarmónica de Viena pero dan ambiente :-)

Artist Reply: I don't think there are rancorous ladies here, Seth. OMG, for sure!:-))) They only remind of Tercios de Flandes- (Search wikipedia dot org/wiki/Tercio). Our troops were more than naughty boys in the past :-)

Artist Reply: I'll tell you about this town, Cedeira is a seaworthy place and their economy is based in the fishing. But it's the most clean place I know in this area. People enjoy to take care of their hometown and are proud of it. There is a beach named "La Arena" (The Sand). You can walk or dive :-) You'll only have to cross the street.

Artist Reply: Yes, Mary. Local holidays there that sunny day. After that we went to a place near there, San Andrés de Teixido, a wonderful tucked away village in the mountains (http://artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=649247). There are impressive cliffs there and also we could see wild horses living in freedom (http://artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?ID=720674).--- Few days ago we had a huge storm here although we hadn't severe damages and only three people died but it was terrible in France (50 dead people). We had the same kind of storm on January 2009. Its name is "ciclogénesis explosiva", something like a hurricane but it hasn't "eye", it's COMPACT and destructive. It EXPLODES suddenly. No rain, sometimes sunny day and suddenly... apocalypse! Wind can reach 240 Km/h.

Artist Reply: Forgot. That storm (January 2009) devastated those mountains and a lot of beautiful wild horses died :-( After I talk to my friends, we went to San Andrés and I almost cried by seeing THOUSANDS of broken trees. Almost 30 % of the woodland of Galicia (my region) was totally destroyed in only 5 hours.

Artist Reply: Hmmm... As you can see, all of them wear "pata negra" :-) (black trousers)

Artist Reply: "Narizotas" pushes the handy cart with his stomach (full of beer, I suppose :-)