Delica-sea: A 'percebeiro' (barnacle picker) collects barnacles from the rocks at Vido Bay. Spanish diners pay handsomely to taste the iodine-tinged flesh of the greybrown stalks that hold these crustaceans to the rocks at Christmas.
In Spain, barnacle-pickers risk their lives to net a Christmas treat.
PERCHED on a slippery rock off Spain’s rough north-west coast, Nando keeps one eye on the breaking waves and one on his prey: goose barnacles, a prized Christmas delicacy.
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