Where to go for a New Years Day walk? It was a tough decision between the snowy mountains or the beach. We decided on the beach...and then the mountains...
Where to go for a New Years Day walk? It was a tough decision between the snowy mountains or the beach. We decided on the beach...and then the mountains...
Here we are in a brand new year, and we managed to see it in in the best possible way, which is partly why we had been so quiet for a day or two.
Well, who would have thought this time last year that we, Andrew and I would now be ensconced in Spain as we cross over from 2016 into 2017. Yes, it was our plan for the year, but so much could have gone wrong to upset that particular apple-cart.
Today we have had a bit of a breakthrough! We have engaged with the villagers!!
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 is a quick reference look at our Córdoba highlights, snippets and visitor recommendations...
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...
