SatScenes: View from Balcon de Europa at Dawn
SatScenes: Sunrise Playa Torrecilla
Its been a while since I took a photograph for SatScenes. I did not sleep well last night so, at dawn, went for a walk with my little JRT.
SatScenes: Moonlight Walk by Playa Torrecilla
SatScenes: Lunch at Cafe Jamaica
SatScenes: Nerja Carnival 2013
Fiestas are magical times in Nerja. Their attachments to fiestas and Carnivals, and the still remaining community spirit, is just one of many reasons I continue to love this country so very much. Today´s carnival was magical – great fun and something not to be missed. It is a pity those Brits I heard complaining about the money spent on the Carnival realise celebration is more important during times of depression, not less. I hope it is a tradition Spain never leaves behind…
SatScenes: Queso de Tetilla
Today we ventured to Lidl and, whilst there, purchased the delightful Queso de Tetilla. A cheese always likely to promote a giggle in our juvenile household. The cheese is named “tetilla”, which means nipple, and clearly defines the traditional shape of this cheese, that is, a flattened pear-shaped cone with a small nipple on the top.
Incidentally it is a lovely delicate and soft cheese too. Gorgeous for having with crusty bread – although, personally, I like to bake it with eggs in the oven!
SatScenes: The Snow Scene
One of the most wonderful things about winter in Spain is quite often, when one feels cold indoors, you can venture outside during the afternoon and make like a lizard. I felt a little pang of sadness as I looked at everyones snow scenes until I went out for my afternoon walk with the JRT. The sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to do a little light sunbathing. But there, up in the mountains surrounding Nerja, was the snow. How fabulous is Andalucia? Lovely and warm here in our Coastal town – snow in the mountains just behind us!
Beat that
SatScenes: Counting Coppers
I did post earlier. But then I decided that, in actual fact, I wanted to show how I concluded my Saturday – Counting Coppers. We keep a jar in which we place all our spare change. That point in the month when you realise you either need to take up weight training or empty the loose change from the confines of your purse / bag. We had €15,60 in Spanish, or should I say European currency, and £8.52 the Great British pound…
This sort of task takes me back to my childhood when my Grandparents always used to save up all the “copper” and place it in my savings account once a year. One year they saved so much I had enough to buy myself an Albion Saddle for my pony Thomas. Actually I believe in the years before it was the culmination of those savings which bought me Thomas in the first place! My saddle was, admitedly, worth more than the horse in real terms. A little Gypsy cob we paid £250 for.
There was no snow here sadly. Just rain, rain and a little more rain. But I did get a window in which I walked out to El Puente del Águila, an aqueduct built in the 1800?s.
SatScenes: The silence of Winter in Nerja
Saturday night, just past 11pm, I suddenly realised I had not taken my camera out as I had planned to for SatScenes. The street was devoid of all life, fairly usual during the cold winter months at night, but come summer these streets with be heaving with people just going out…
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