Spain Week five, day three

Monday May 26th 2008
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Hacienda, Villamartin, Spain

As is the recent pattern, the day starts out nice and sunny and clouds over a little as the day goes on. But we are able to do yoga on the front terrace with the great view, rather than be tucked under the side terrace.

Down by the side of one of the farm buildings is a kennel where a dog has just had a litter of puppies. Usually we catch a little peep of the puppies in their kennel (usually asleep). But this morning, Diego, the farm manager has the puppies out of the kennel and is letting them have a wander around on their own a bit. Mum is not too happy about this as she is chained to the kennel and has to just watch as the puppies do some exploring on their own. They totter about looking at things - all very cute.

After today's life coaching class we head off to Villamartin for a walk round and a bite to eat. Our waiter turns out to be from Scotland (via New Zealand) and lives here married to a local Spanish lady. He inspires us to have some of the local specialities and these are very good - especially the grilled swordfish steak.

Villamartin is quite a pretty village in places but doesn't have the dramatic location of many of the other white villages. We do find the nesting storks again and they are pretty amazing, having built their nest on the apex of a sharply pointed roof. Other birds seem to be nesting in the lower branches of the stork's huge nest.

Tomorrow's tentative plan is to visit Ronda - definitely one of the region's highlights.