Hints and tips:
...I was visiting a good friend of mine, Eva Claessens – a Belgian painter who has an atelier in Garzón, a lovely little pueblo near José Ignacio....
...“We have to value the traditional dishes of our mothers, our grandmothers, the food that has always been cooked in el pueblo . . . unas buenas lentejas, arroz caldoso [soupy rice] with chicken,” says Santamaria...
...Sweat lodges, too, are a fundamental aspect of the culture; there are a variety available even if you are not an initiate invited to a pueblo ceremonial sweat....
...If proof be needed, head to El Alto....
...When his policies are questioned or fail, he blames the past and calls on the wisdom of “el pueblo” to justify his approach, even if that means not listening to what the people really say....
...A chant swelled in response: “Petro, amigo; el pueblo está con tigo!” Petro, buddy; the people are with you!”...
...Onward to El Colmenar, also called Estación de Gaucín, which can confuse the unwary, because it is actually a steep four hour walk from the station to Gaucín itself....
...“El pueblo le falló en su momento,” he said. The people failed at the time — a statement seemingly deflecting blame away from his father....
...As I stand on a tiny fishing boat in the shallow waters off El Ñuro pier, they start to emerge. First one, then several more. Finally, 15 are swimming around the boat....
...Twenty minutes away near the town of Huescar is El Collado (€3.5m through the same agent), which has 1,970 acres, partly given over to almond plantations and farmland....
...It takes an hour by open-top boat to get from the aerodrome to the island’s only population centre, San Juan Bautista, (which everyone calls “el pueblo”)....
...Gracias Pueblo amado!!...
...In Pueblo Garzón, humble roadside properties – the majority abandoned – are scattered with “for sale” signs. María Blanca González sits outside her unassuming family home, drinking maté tea....
...Students in the street shout: “People united advance without parties” (catchier in the Spanish ‘el pueblo unido avanza sin partidos’). What is the future scenario?...
...Like Catorce, Pozos has been designated a pueblo mágico, and artists and expats are starting to move here from San Miguel and other cities in search of a more authentic Mexico....
...For the past two years, they have battled a range of setbacks, including heavy rains brought on by the El Niño weather effect, a spike in fertiliser prices, an ongoing replanting programme and rising problems...
...Boca, by contrast, remained the team of the people, something celebrated by their fans in their chant, “Boca es el pueblo, el carnival”....
...Andalusia’s emblematic pueblos blancos, or white villages, proliferate in the region, and Vejer de la Frontera, about 15 minutes south-east of Conil, is one of the finer examples of these....
...Across the street is the Peralta Adobe, built in 1797, the last remaining structure – sculpted in clay – from El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first settlement here....
International Edition