Another day off (yippee). Dee had decided that after yesterdays exploits she was going to have a day off from tourism and do some relaxing. Being unable to sit still myself, I had planned to take a trip to Motril to see some more shops, but even though I woke early at 7am, by the time I had washed, dressed, had breakfast, connected to the internet and checked the bus time tables I had missed the only bus of the day that leaves at 8am (sigh!), so instead I decided to take myself off up into the hills and go for a nice hike. Kate gave me some very sketchy directions to what she called the waterfall walk and after deliberating about walking poles and waterproofs and deciding against taking my big pack, I set off ... read more

Today we finally completed our tunnel and moved out of the store room and into our very own Casita. All the guests have now departed so we are finally able to have a Casita to ourselves. Kate had departed early to the airport in Malaga to pick up some friends so we were left to our own devices. While I attended to the daily chores and lugged beds and mattress’s up and down the hill from the tool shed, Dee set about scrubbing our new abode from top to bottom and we also managed to sneak some washing into the “clean” guests washing machine. After a long day and lots of hard work it was nice to be able to finally have a decent shower and relax in our own place and Dee was ecstatic at ... read more

They say the darkest hour is just before dawn, well for me it’s about 3am. I woke early this morning and just couldn’t get back to sleep, too many thoughts wizzing around in my head, too many unanswered questions, too many answers to questions I wish I hadn’t asked. Don’t they say ignorance is bliss? It’s a melancholy and lonely journey at 3am and the only place to go when your sharing a room is the bathroom, so I’m typing today’s episode sat on the cold stone Spanish tiles and wondering if I’m a little crazy. It’s change over day, not a good day to feel tired but I do. After watering the terraces (why oh why didn’t they just install a drip feed system), cleaning the pool and sweeping the surround, Dee and I set ... read more

Wow we made it. A whole week has now passed, I was going to cancel today’s blog due to lack of brain function and the fact that I’d just be blabbering on about cleaning the pool, weeding, digging, watering and picking up nuts again, but as well as doing all that we also had a little drama which I thought I’d share. Like everything else here, the electricity has always been a bit dodgy and the fuses have been tripping every now and then since we got here but today they kept tripping and wouldn’t reset, so Kate set us to investigate. After determining that the fuse box complete with circuit breakers which sits outside the front door isn’t actually a fuse box at all but apparently just switches the lights around the car park and ... read more