This year we’ve been eating breakfast outside. I’m not sure why we haven’t before, other than when we had Charlie and Queenie they would probably have both bumped into the table repeatedly. Also, Ian sits on the step and they…

We know there is a castro over on the headland and some non-invasive excavations were undertaken in 2022. Each lump in the photo below is believed to have been a house. Last week some archaeologists undertook an excavation of a…

Our car failed its annual road worthy inspection. It wasn’t a surprise as the exhaust has been extremely loud over recent weeks and there was no way it would pass like that. We’d expected it to fail last year and…

I noticed our tamarillo trees have started to fruit, which was a bit of a surprise as they were only tiny treelings this time last year but did seem to take on rather a growth spurt this year. I had…

I don’t know if they are popular outside of Spain, however padron peppers are a mainstay of Spanish cuisine and are very common as tapas. They are typically served either fried or grilled and sprinkled with salt. I’d never really…

Here’s Daisy in full sparkle out on her walk. The mornings are getting noticeably darker now – but Daisy brightens them up. Ian hums ¡Rocking around the Christmas Tree’ when he sees Daisy in her lights! And here’s Millie stood…

Our fiesta lights appeared at the weekend. The coincide oddly with the Fiesta of the Fried Egg, but not for the Mermaid fiesta which was the week before. I think there’s a couple of other fiestas and celebrations around this…

We were fortunate to live right in the middle of the total eclipse path! The sun goes behind the hill behind us at about 20 past 8, so if we wanted to see the eclipse we had to go to…

Yesterday we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. Wow! We celebrated with a frozen pizza and bottle of Extremaduran Cava. No cheese feast this year. Cheese is so reasonably priced here that cheese feasts are now pretty much an every day…