Well with another busy week of work done and dusted, we headed out to a little farm North of Malaga, where we were to live and work with a nice Spanish family for two weeks. Or so we thought. Upon arriving in the town of Colmenar we were greeted by our gracious host, Adam. Adam, although being a very inviting and interesting person, could not be less Spanish. In fact our Spanish was probably on par with his. Not to be deterred we decided that if couldn´t learn Spanish then we´d learn about organic farming. Lesson 1: S*¡t happens 2 days of shovelling, bagging, moving, rolling and unloading rancid, flea ridden animal pheacal matter. (Although I was somewhat accustomed to this with my time in the Army, Alison had to ´warm´ to it) Lesson 2: Organic
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