Or if you do – can you hold a conversation with someone in Andalucia? Some years ago, when we first came here camping, we went to a fine bar. Ok, I’ll be honest, it was Bar Guerra in Los Boliches. We practised our best Spanish there and the guys were really nice. So nice, that […]Read Post ›

Is it me or is the specification for Spanish fridges just different? We bought a perfectly good (electrolux?) fridge freezer many years ago in the UK. One or two days before we were due to go on holiday we noticed a mega hole out the back. So we rushed off and bought a new one. […]Read Post ›

Juan turned up on his quad. With his mate on the back, and another mate. And a cockerel. Three guys and a cockerel on a quad. It took them an hour and a half to catch him the night before apparently. So then they all trooped off into the shed to look at our chickens. […]Read Post ›

Camping is fine in Spain. In winter the place is full of Northern Europeans in campervans/motorhomes. A lot of the coastal campsites are chocka, but many people prefer to wild camp by the beach. Partly for cost, but partly because it’s nice. Summer is a pain because it is full of noisy families, and the […]Read Post ›

So the day after, (Men’s talk) partner decides the best plan of action is to put a bird cage on the back of one of the bikes. The cockerel would have plenty of space in there, and it meant there wouldn’t be Man from Out The Back, husband and a cockerel all hanging off the […]Read Post ›

We were offered a free cockerel – I think. Partner was out messing around with his Land Rover in the street and one of the local guys who lives out the back came past on his quad. I say “out the back” because that’s how everyone describes someone who doesn’t live right in the middle […]Read Post ›

No not UHT milk or anything as obvious as that. TVs. They are regularly found chucked out at the communal rubbish bins around here. One of ours started to go a bit iffy last year. Blurred. Didn’t like starting. Kept dying on me. But I persevered – there were just so many Spanish soaps to […]Read Post ›

Usually there are three of them. But they are not always the same three. We never see four of them. Maybe they don’t all get on. Our neighbour – who turned 80 this year – has suddenly taken up walking a few miles round the local country tracks. When we first came here, he was […]Read Post ›