First full day in Spain

Thursday April 24th

Moorish Farmhouse, Orgiva, Spain

A fantastic night's sleep after two days of "sleeping rough". No rush to get up and going first thing, but as the sun rose over the mountains to the east, I was inspired to find our new camcorder and take a few minutes footage outside. We are really excited about using the camcorder over the summer and plan to create a number of clips of the various properties we are staying at, the local sights and even some of the classes.

It was market day in Orgiva, the local town, this morning and I had a quick call in on the way out to collect Linda at Malaga airport. I was able to get another 10 minutes or so of film of the market. But I have to admit, we really don't know anything much about making this sort of thing, and I can tell it is probably a lot trickier than it looks.

The drive down to Malaga to meet Linda was uneventful. Since we were here last year it almost seems like there are even more polytunnels. The other way along the coast towards Almeria has become swamped with polytunnels that have transformed the local agriculture as well as the view.

Linda had a late night last night finishing her admin after her last sessions at Active Pilates. She got to bed about 12:30 and was up again at 3:30 to get her cab to Oxford and the coach to Gatwick. Her journey to Malaga went fine, but she was pretty tired.

We stopped off for an hour at the supermarket at Motril for a first shop up and then back to Orgiva and a small amount of unpacking and rest.

We went out for dinner at one of the small restaurants in Orgiva that had been closed last time we were here. Linda had a vegetarian paella, but we are sure that we can do better than this (and have scheduled paella for Sunday night with our guests).