Never a dull moment here in Spain, and once again it has been a busy week, so time for a bit of comfort food. This recipe is a favourite of both Andrew and Lucie, my daughter, and, indeed, was one of the first recipes that Lucie asked for when she went to University.
There have been a few difficulties this week. On Saturday, I received an email from one of my brothers informing me that Mum had been taken to hospital following a fall at home...
If you ever visit Granada number one thing to do during your stay will be to visit the Alhambra. It’s almost impossible not to. However this post is not a tourist guide. I simply want to explain what I find so moving about this incredible palace.
La semana pasada la escuela fue dificil. Nosotros aprendímos verbos en el pasado: pretérito indefinido, pretérito perfecto y pretérito imperfecto y estaban muy complicados.
Yesterday evening, just as we were settling down in front of the fire - voomph! - the house went dark: a power cut.
It has been a busy old week, and I am not quite sure where the time has gone. We are in the middle of our three-week run at school, and had friends to stay at the weekend, its all been rather hectic, so where to begin?
This week has been really tough. We have recently been studying three past tenses in Spanish and combining these proved a little too much for us...
You've heard of 'por favor' right? Well, it turns out that the word 'por' unlocks a whole hideous pandora's box of linguistic hell...
Truth be told, it doesn’t take much for me to get frustrated, but yesterday was a bad day; the wind must have been blowing from the wrong direction...
OK, that may not sound that thrilling, but we bought a whole jamón from the highest village in southern Spain where it is cured and air-dried...
