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About Jimena de la Frontera, the province of Cadiz and Spain as a whole, focused on this small village in the mountainsArchive for UPCOMING ITEMS
HAVE YOU DONE THE CROSSWORD YET?
If you scroll down to a few earler posts, you will see a new JimenaPulse competition. Check it out, it’ll help your Spanish (o tu inglés), and you can win a dinner for two.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
HERE ARE SOME OF OUR RECENT STORIES
- Before, after and right now. Ill-treated horses, here, here and here.
- Watch out for this scam! Here
- Our first restaurant review by independent and anonymous G&T. Here
- We need a better camera. Here And we need to eat! Here
- Attempted murder. Here
- How ’bout that festival?! Here
- New Sponsors. Here, here and here
- Thanks for your continuing support. Here, here, here and here
- Remember the campaign against noise? Let’s keep it going now that the summer’s here! Click here and here
AND COMING SOON TO THIS SPACE
- How the Cork Got in Your Bottle, article 4
- Jimena Councillors and their responsibilities. Final, final, official-ish
- New Miradas del Sur mag
- Watch out for launch of bBay en Español
- But have you tried the English version yet?
MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS EVER INVENTED
According to Schott’s Almanac, which quotes Forbes Magazine:
IMPORTANT TOOLS
Forbes.com’s list of
the tools that have
‘most impacted human
civilization’
—————
the knife · the abacus
the compass · the pencil
the harness · the scythe
the rifle · the sword
eyeglasses · the saw
the watch · the lathe
the needle · the candle
the scale · the pot
the telescope · the level
the fish hook · the chisel
JimenaPulse will soon be offering a list of handy DIY tools – in Spanish, of course. The dictionary doesn’t always tell you what they’re called locally, does it?
HOW THE CORK GOT IN YOUR BOTTLE – 2
(Photos by Alberto & Marcelo Bullrich, and Internet)IT ALL STARTS HERE
A mature cork oak (Lat. Quercus Suber, alcornoque for single tree, alcornocal for cork oak forest, hence Los Alcornocales) can grow to some 25 m in height. It grows in gentle, Mediterranean climates, and on non-limestone ground, between sea level and up to 1200 m above. It is not resistant to frost. The fruit resembles that of the various oak species, but is less sweet, and much appreciated by pigs (and especially those that become jamón ibérico)
Its bark, which is thick and spongy, marks the beginning of this journey. TO BE CONTINUED.
Its bark, which is thick and spongy, marks the beginning of this journey. TO BE CONTINUED.
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