I’m sorry I have missed a few days’ blogging.  Unbelievably in a place where there is nothing to do I have been kept very busy.  So, blogs which I have not managed to write since the last time include: – Mountain Deep River High (or scary places to take photos from) – Don’t drink whisky […]

You may have got the impression from my blog the other day that this place is hilly.  That’s because it is.  So in my mind, this is the last place that you would want to ride a bike.  Admittedly for every up slope, there is a down one; but really, why go to all that […]

Today was Abuela’s birthday. Now Abuela is a no nonsense type of woman (as the chicken that she is killing for the Paella this weekend will testify).  She doesn’t really do birthdays in a big way.  Little did she know that her daughter-in-law and amigos had been planning a surprise.  (I love the fact that […]

So we eventually arrived in Bogarra at 8:00pm.  To put this place into context it used to have a population of around 5,000; but according to Tibu it is now nearer 800, with  the number of under 25’s being around 100.  We are all classed as young here.  We like this place.  It is up […]

So, we eventually found the hotel and the next day we got up and started the feeding frenzy.  The hotel was a like a nice Jury’s Inn and offered the usual standard breakfast fayre in the cooked food department; scrambled eggs (but with ham in), fatty streaky bacon and mini frankfurters.  Now I like a frankfurter. […]

“Fancy a cheap holiday?”  Ah my favourite 2 words. Cheap and holiday.  They go together like fish and chips, or pie and mash or Eurovision and failure.  The suggestion came from our friends Rachel and Tibu (see other Spanish blogs for the full relationship). Tibu is Spanish (come on, how many people from Lancashire do […]