Olympician time travel

 We are very much off piste and in the past today. The streetview is from August 2012. I may well have been in Asturias when this was done, watching the Olympics with a strange detachment. In 2012 Paradela was a combination of reworking old houses, protective grey outsides and some nice old bits. We are a bit short of facts about this Paradela. There is a bigger elsewhere in Galicia. Jose Paradela is an Argentinian footballer aged 25 who is on the books of River Plate and is currently out on loan to Necaxa.



Look, I’m really having to work to find anything much today. This site https://www.rome2rio.com/s/A-Coru%C3%B1a/Paradela-Galicia-Spain informs me you could drive here from A Coruna in an hour, costing you about £15. A taxi may be up to £190, a bus 32 and only take an hour and a half.



So, back among the trees, of which some are chestnuts. I am told ‘The chestnut tree provides wood, fruit, shade…enriches the soil where it lives. The excellent characteristics of its wood lead to their most varied uses. It was traditionally used for building purposes (pontoons and beams), interior and exterior carpentry, barrels, boats, posts and grain stores ‘horreos´. They also make baskets with the thinnest wooden rods of this tree. This kind of wood has always been much appreciated for making furniture, thin wood veneer or carpentry in general. Other use was the utilisation of its tannins in the tanning industry.’



We will proceed with that in mind.

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