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Barefoot on the Dunes

We'd climbed up onto the dunes just as the weather turned. One minute it was postcard Fuerteventura. Bright sand, blue sea, the whole thing was beautiful and the next a slab of grey had slid in off the Atlantic and parked itself overhead. Suddenly we were running for our cars as rain pelted down. But that was 5 minutes into the future. For now people were enjoying the dunes in Fuerteventura.

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/20/barefoot-on-the-dunes/

Barefoot on the Dunes

We’d climbed up onto the dunes just as the weather turned. One minute it was postcard Fuerteventura. Bright sand, blue sea, the whole thing was beautiful and the next a slab of grey had slid in off the Atlantic and parked itself overhead. Sudden...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/20/barefoot-on-the-dunes/

#barefoot #CanaryIslands #corralejo #Fuerteventura #Landscape #MoodySky #Photo #Photography #PortraitInLandscape #sand #SandDunes #Spain #TravelPhotography #windswept

wouldn’t be shocked if the #DDos is related to the EU Citizens Initiative to suspend the bilateral agreement with #Israel:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116432072206493360

the PM of #Spain, Pedro Sánchez will be asking tomorrow the @EUCommission to take up the initiative

the ECI is often described as just #clicktivism. bootlickers love it as easy to discount and manipulate on centralized, billionaire-owned, corporate social platforms.

but the #fediverse & especially #Mastodon are a monkey wrench on that

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RE: https://ohai.social/@s1m0n4/116432377778507179

"Remplacer Windows en France", ça a l'air d'une grande nouveauté...! Pensez-vous que cela se propagera aux pays voisins...? #Portugal 🇵🇹 #Spain 🇪🇸 #Italia 🇮🇹 ... ☺️ #FOSS #Astérix #souverainetéNumérique
#DigitalSovereignty

The walled Old Town of Cáceres is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval ensembles, mixing Roman substructure (the 1st C. BCE colony of Norba Caesarina) with largely intact Islamic, Gothic & Renaissance architecture. On a Monday we found it largely deserted—even Plaza Mayor, the main square. A few tour groups did shuffle from ticket booth to ticket booth, but the homologous stone, populous pigeons & closed doors resisted our efforts to connect with this open-air museum, which seemed to lack residents to give it soul. In the late Gothic Santa Iglesia Concatedral de Santa María | Co-Cathedral of Santa María a spiral staircase (📷1) led to a small platform in the bell tower with views over the town (📷2); a number of other towers (including the 12th C. Moorish Torre de Bujaco) were in scaffold. We found the medieval streets & walls struggled to offer themselves as photographic subjects. An exception was at Palacio de Carvajal | Carvajal Palace, a 15th–16th century Renaissance-style palace, featuring a distinctive Gothic-style corner balcony beneath a pointed arch (📷3). We caught the bus back to camp feeling underwhelmed & questioning why this should be so. Camp itself is a highlight: we needed a break from travelling at pace, & what a delight to find an affordable pitch with en suite 🚽🚿facilities (📷4).

🇪🇸 #spain #extremadura 🇪🇺 #europe 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🌍 #unesco

"World’s Last Wild Horse Thriving After 3 Years in Spain’s Gallop Towards Rewilding"

#Spain #Animals #Horses

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-last-wild-horse-thriving-after-3-years-in-spains-gallop-towards-rewilding/

World's Last Wild Horse Thriving After 3 Years in Spain's Gallop Towards Rewilding

Once seriously threatened with extinction, captive breeding programs have seen the animal return to pastures across Eurasia.

Good News Network

BDG News: Buddhist Retreat Center Arya Tara Announces Sixth Buddhist Conference in Madrid: “VI Jornadas de Budismo: Mindfulness”

🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4mIbGGz

#Buddhism #Madrid #Spain #Conference #Mindfulness #Meditation #Samadhi #Vipassana