Well along with the rainy days at the finca came the book reading. So, in order of books read: First, Clive Cussler and Black Wind. I’ve read a number of CC books, initially through a neighbour who does the book passing on thing. If you like adventure-packed action boy heroics – then these will do […]Read Post ›
Continuing on with the finca renovation saga from my Itchy Feet blog – the next room to be tackled was the bedroom. I had started hacking out some of the plaster in the bedroom back in February when we began the revamp, but the rest of the work had to wait while we systematically – […]Read Post ›
Well yes, because I am sick of blogger mucking up my blogs which I was perfectly happy with. So I shall play around with wordpress for a while and see if it serves. If not, back to struggling with blogger. Oh, a couple of other comments. There is less ability to mess around with fonts […]Read Post ›
For a place that is less than three square miles in total area, the amount of traffic in Gibraltar is, at times, unbelievable. Being a city it suffers from the usual city syndrome with everyone rushing to work in their car, dropping off the kids on the school run by car (often a 4×4), and […]Read Post ›
In Spain, we always have a daily salad. It doesn’t matter whether it is a light one in the evening, or a large one for our main meal at lunchtime. I’ve always been a huge salad lover. When I was a kid I would love preparing salads for my parents, and we would sit down […]Read Post ›
I bought a box of organic chestnut mushrooms and every time I looked at them they spoke to me saying ‘mushroom pate’. So I looked up endless recipes on the internet and they all seemed to be basically the same. Chop onions, mushrooms and garlic, and saute gently in olive oil and/or butter. Which I […]Read Post ›
And following on from National Day, a few Gibfacts, for those of you who wonder where on earth it is and what life is like here. Basics First up – where it is. It’s on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula and juts out dramatically into the Mediterranean. It is NOT an island, although is […]Read Post ›
