Spain Week One - day five

Thursday May 1st 2008

Moorish Farmhouse, Orgiva, Spain

For our yoga today, we tried to work in a bit more flow into the postures, and included three short sequences of postures into these "vinyasa". This is not really my speciality, but was quite fun to do and is a sign of my growing confidence I would think. Feedback remains good, so I am pretty happy.

It was the May day holiday today and this meant, sadly, that the regular market in Orgiva was postponed. We had hoped that our guests would have been able to go there today (as I really enjoyed seeing it last week). So instead we have the next class of the "learn to relax" theme slightly earlier than expected and a really nice learn to meditate session under the lemon trees in the garden.

The temperature continues to climb and reached the mid thirties today. I had a little sun bathing session outside by the pool, but it was too hot for me after quite a short time. So we had a quiet afternoon sorting out more stuff. My thoughts are often on marketing and how to really develop our breaks going forward. So much we don't know about this at the moment.

Dinner tonight has a North African theme (as it is possible to see some of the mountains in Morocco from the tops of the Sierra Nevada mountains behind us) and was very nice indeed. Stuffed aubergines to start, followed by a chicken, artichoke and vegetable tagine (served in Nigel and Zoe's authentic clay tagine). Dessert was a cake we had bought at the local bakery this morning and which was really nice - light sponge with cream and honey.

And a little bit of star gazing tonight as it is another really clear evening. Saturn is high in the sky directly south and I was surprised that we could get some good views of it - enough to see the rings clearly. Also it's moon Titan was visible (I think). Still too early in the year for views of the star fields of the milky way,but the first time any of our guests had seen the rings of saturn.