Travel in Galicia, Spain: Water, Words, and Weather

Winter in Galicia means wildly changeable weather, but the galegos are experts at dealing with whatever the weather brings. In this video we take a look at winter in Galicia and how maybe it's just the perfect metaphor for life.

Please visit and support the wonderful musicians you hear on our soundtrack!

LAROÁ, and Banda Baile Asalto are projects of Miguel Fraguas. You can find him here:

We would like to thank Benjamin and Alfonso for chatting with us about the wild Galician weather, and our friends at Bar Vilariño in Ponte Carreira for letting us film there.

We also thank Moises for allowing us into his beautiful home and also for helping with translations.

A big thank you to Piero for helping with galego.

The lovely Maria Mendoza not only recorded a piece for our video, she shares our love for Galicia and is one of those people who knows how to connect the right people with each other. Thank you, Maria!

And finally, a huge thank you to all the beautiful people who appear in our videos, and all of you who have made us feel welcome in this magical place.

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[jblondon]

This is not just a youtube video, this is a poem, a homage to my land Galicia.

[samcarter]

This is so wonderful. Your videos really capture Spain in the most beautiful way. I have watched a lot of films and documentaries of Spain 🇪🇸 and I have travelled 🧳 there many times. But with your wonderful narration and poetry and the traditional Spanish folk music. 🎶 So good 😊 please make more. 👍🙏🥳

[onanonainoyole]

Pero ¿Qué maravilla es ésta? ¡Qué increíble descubrimiento, qué suerte poder disfrutar de esta maravilla de vídeo y de canal! Gracias, gracias, gracias...

[TraianMotfolea]

Wonderful video-poetry. I am amazed how many words for rain people use. As here, in Canada, in the north, the Inuit people (I was told) have similar number of words for snow, which, as rain, comes with multiple personalities. I love your work.

[kendale]

Just discovered your beautiful and literate videos of Galicia and it brought memories of my 5 year sojourn in Spain (1973-78). The son of a native born Galego father and a mother born in USA --her father was born in Pontevedra, and her mother born in New Orleans of a Catalan mother and Asturian father most of whom immigrated to the States in early to mid 1800's mostly to the South (Louisana, Mississippi and Florida). My grandmother and my grandfather married in Louisiana, moved to Florida where my mother was born and mother married the Galego who came to work in the Cigar Factories of west central Florida. I am 77 years old and my first Spain adventure was in 1970 with a month spent in an aldea west of Santiago de Compostela where my dad was born. After college and grad school I obtained a Lecturers' position at the Univ of Madrid Complutense campus ansd spent much free time driving to Galicia and travelling most everywhere in Galicia and Asturias. I have been back several times visiting cousins and extended family but it is always a hurried experience spent mostly in Santiago or Coruna. Your videos bring back fond memories of the rural north Spain during those horrible Franco years.

[raullojoromero]

I live abroad due to my job and I felt like I was in Galicia for a moment. Thank you for making these beautiful videos about my motherland. Keep it up!

[quiqueulloa]

We who are from here or have lived here for so long, many times take for granted all these things. It is so refreshing to see through new eyes discovering what it is living in Galicia! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!

[marrelovacalvo]

Jane, es una delicia ver tus contenidos.
"Si chove deixa que chova,
si orballa deixa orballare,
que eu ven sei dun abriguiño
onde eime de ir a abrigare."
Es una cantiga gallega que nos cantaba mi madre, miña naiciña, cuando éramos pequeñas y llovía. Y cuando nos quejábamos porque nos mojaba la lluvia nos decía: solo es agua.
Es vida.
Gracias, Jane.

[llambotron]

Os hemos de dar GRACIAS por redescubrirnos una tierra tan maravillosa como es Galicia. Thanks !!

[BenjaminPerezsouto]

Gracias Jane!
Each time that I watch one of your videos It gives me new ways to look to my country!

[chemachema]

I am a normal Galician, after traveling through Spain and traveling a little around the world, I have learned to love my land, Galicia.
It is incredible for me to see how you love this land and enjoy the rain, that rain that no one wants and that the rest of Spain fears since it usually means sadness.
For me, the rain is the memory of days making bread in the family oven, a large wood-burning oven, enjoying fresh, hot bread on cold, rainy days with my grandfather.
Every time I watch your videos it makes me think why you have fallen in love with this inhospitable land.
You are amazing.

[beewebb]

What an exquisitely crafted film! I have just discovered your channel Jane, and had the pleasure of watching this and ‘Bread and Wine’ with my Galician daughter in law who was visiting us in here in the UK last week. Her father is a wine producer on land that has been in the family over 5 generations and she grown up with a profound love for the language, music and literature of her country. So, judging by her response to your films, I know Galicians will adore you for this. Oh, and Jones’s photography is sublime! (I checked out his instagram account). Can’t wait to visit Galicia again at the end of this month!

[jackiesiemens]

Beautiful! Thanks for showing us the beauty in the rain!

[jesusmartinaguilar]

Big Jane!!

Galicia is a magical land, if you knew how many Spaniards want to live there and we can't. Thank you for choosing to live Galicia and Spain, we love you.

Grande Jane!!

Galicia es tierra mágica, si supieseis cuantos españoles deseamos vivir allí y no podemos. Gracias por elegir para vivir Galicia y España, os queremos.

[javiers.]

Nunca choveu que non escampara means that as bad as it may seem whatever it is that life throws at you, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel. Literally yes, it never rained that it didn’t stop. Figuratively or used with Galician “retranca” it means as bad as it may seem, it’ll all pass and eventually it’ll all be well.

[spain]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video! It really moved me and brought a few tears to my eyes. I’m a son of Galician immigrants in the US, this video brought me back memories of my father and my grandparents who were from a small aldea in Porto do Son.

[cuentinta]

Another wonderful video. And the chosen music is beautiful. Thank you so much for giving this to all of us.

[melix]

What a gem of a video! I so appreciate your refreshing and creative interpretation of this mystical land, language and people. Through your combined talents, the two of you are able to capture a depth of essence of the human experience that far exceeds anything I have seen in travel videos. Judging by the comments, you have profoundly moved many viewers, locals and foreigners alike—a true charism! 


Myself enchanted by walking the Camino de Santiago in 2004, I set my dream on returning permanently “sometime in the future”. As time passed, I narrowed it down to Galicia. In 2019, my husband and I began looking at rural properties with the intention of returning in 2020. Now with the pandemic situation somewhat normalizing, the search resumes and the plan is to return in the summer of 2023.

Thanks you so much for giving us a glimpse of your new surroundings through these inspiring videos!

[RGRGJKK]

Pura vida Jane excelente video de la madre patria.pura vida

[maras.a.]

Tu narrativa es pura poesía y la imagen es espectacular.