Equus Asinus

So, home again in El Parral after the long return drive from Granada. Three days away from the donkeys is quite enough. I saw an old photo outside a closed restaurant in Granada showing a man with two donkeys entering the main gate of the Alhambra, and I already felt I had been away from … More Alone in the Alhambra: Part 2

A recurring theme in sci-fi stories and films is that of The Last Person on Earth. It feels something like that here in the Washington Irving Hotel next to the Alhambra in Granada looking out on the empty street next to one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions. Ask yourself, where would you go … More Alone in the Alhambra

To clarify the present summer break, in response to a few emails to me from readers, the equusasinus.net blog will continue and this break at the end of the long COVID-19 lockdown in Spain is temporary. Reader numbers were the lowest in ten years and it seemed there was such competing demand on everyone’s time … More We’ll meet again

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020, marking a decade since the blog began. This morning the van arrived from Nutrivila with the donkeys’ food. Tito climbed out of the cab putting on a face mask and I put on mine before greeting him. We unloaded the 25 bales of straw and three bales … More 3. The old normal

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020. Each week I will republish two or three old posts: these excerpts are from the old Brother Lapin’s Pilgrimage blog, in France in the summer of 2010. As with most things to do with time and memory, things become compressed or transposed. I was quite taken aback … More 2. A time of waiting: Summer 2010

10 Years of the Blog 2010 – 2020. This blog post is from the old Brother Lapin’s Pilgrimage blog, ten years ago. Each week I will republish two or three old posts: this is the first. https://brotherlapin.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/st-jacques-in-chatellerault/ When I wrote this blog post ten years ago, I was travelling on a bicycle from Canterbury to … More 1. St-Jacques in Chatellerault: July 2010

Hello, I’m Rubí and this is my Rubí Tuesday blogue. This is the second in a portant series of blogues on Envirionmental Enrichiment – or how to make a more intresting place for a donk to be.  The Donkey Sanctuary advice can be found here on the interwebby thing:  https://view.pagetiger.com/EnvironmentalEnrichmentforDonkeys/EnvironmentEnrichmentfordonkeys This week we are looking at the problem of peasants getting … More Envirionmental Enrichiment: Part 2

Tomorrow, Rubí donkey will write (writ? writtied? wrotteried?) her usual Tuesday blogue.  Her subject tomorrow remains  Envirionmental Enrichiment the next part of it (being Part 2, which follows from Part 1, and that is a credit to Rubí’s clear focus on the sequencing.) After that the equusasinus.net blog will take readers on a ten year … More Ten years of the blog, 2010-2020

Por primera vez en diez años desde que comencé este blog en Francia en 2010 (poco antes de venir a trabajar a España), escribo mi blog en español. Si eres inglés, busca un traductor: ¡es bastante fácil y los españoles tienen que hacerlo con suficiente frecuencia!  Y si eres inglés y has estado en España … More La nueva normalidad