Last week can best be described as a maelstrom. We moved to Granada on Sunday 1st October for the month and had to hit the ground running as soon as we arrived...
All in Places to visit
Last week can best be described as a maelstrom. We moved to Granada on Sunday 1st October for the month and had to hit the ground running as soon as we arrived...
Andrew and I are feeling a little bit fragile today. Today is my birthday, and I am not normally one for a great big occasion, but somehow we have found ourselves in the middle of a weekend with a fair amount occasion-ing. Firstly a fantastic tapas tour of Granada
The UK’s bank holiday weekend, for us, was all about the beach. We earmarked two events for this weekend: a concert on the beach in Salobreña by the band Los Gin Tonic and then a Fiesta at La Barraca, a great restaurant right on the beach at Cantarrijan, a little further along the coast...
Throughout August and September, there is a Guitar festival running in Los Jardines de Falla, the gardens that lead down to the foyer of the Manuel de Falla concert hall. We decided to find out more...
Last week, Andrew and I got to drive deep into Las Alpujarras, one of our favourite parts of southern Spain to interview Anna Kemp about her life and most recent project, an open air theatre in the village of Laroles, and runs the annual drama festival, Me Vuelves Lorca...
For me, one of the highlights of the Alhambra and Generalife, the crowning glories of Granada, has to be the Open Air Theatre...
One of my biggest passions is cycling. When I can, I will and the terrain and infrastructure here in this part of Spain (and probably all over Spain) means that every single ride is nothing short of epic...
We can't quite believe that we have been here, living in Spain, for over 9 months, and the time has flown by. We have been increasingly busy and not had so much time to write this blog but I felt it worth pausing for a moment just to talk a little bit more about the village we currently call our home: Saleres
Sunday was Andrew’s Birthday, and it is probably fair to say that we both felt a little bit jaded on that morning. We didn’t drink that much, but the effects are amplified in the heat unless alcohol is accompanied by litres of water!
An important ingredient is missing from this account. This weekend in Madrid also happened to coincide with Andrew's 42nd Birthday (I know; he's very old)...