Just when we thought that it couldn’t get any colder in the valley, it just did...
All in Spain
The next day was yet another blissful, clear and sunny day. Unbroken blue skies and a clear, wintry light...
We had no idea what to expect in Yegen, but we knew that we wanted to see the house where Gerald Brenan lived; the village that formed the basis of his account of life in Spain between 1920 and 1934, so almost 100 years ago.
Part of this year in Spain we are exploring parts of the country we don’t yet know, and dig around to see if there are places we love more than our home in the Lecrin Valley. So off we went into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and beyond...
Today, we had a jaunt along the coast to Marbella...
This was an unusual Christmas. For a start, this is the first year that I have not spent Christmas with my family - either with my parents or my children. It was just me and Andrew.
It's Christmas Eve and we thought that we would record a festive message for friends and family.
I LOVE Christmas. I always have and I don't think that the excitement has wained since I was a child. But what's Spanish Christmas going to be like?
Here in deepest rural Spain, it is easy for Andrew and I to feel a sense of relief that we are, geographically, removed from some of the horrors that prevail as we approach the end of a pretty grim year. But, rural Spain is not without its own recent bloody history, and this has been brought home to us just recently.
For those of you who love the TV series, Game of Thrones (who doesn’t??!), you will undoubtedly know that the Real Alcazar in Seville is used as one of the locations - the capital of Dorne, to be precise, seat of the House of Martell...
