We’d popped into Calpe for a spot of lunch.  Not wishing to eat large lunches, ours tend to be tapas, either calamares [squid] or chipirones/chopitos [baby squid – I think chopitos is the Valenciana name]. The astute reader may see…

We’ve suffered a day or two with some heavy rain. There is a good deal of sunshine in our little Costa Blanca corner of Spain but when it rains often does so heavily. ‘T was Monday and the fearless leader…

We’ve been feeling something like prisoners not only due to the prevailing weather conditions but also because of the condition that the ground has been left in. Farmer Luc has a couple of walks around the area centred on his…

I can’t believe that we’ve been here for almost two months but hadn’t yet made one of our normal forays around Las Salinas in Calpe – until today, that is. Today was looking like the warmest and sunniest day of…

Our now regular Monday walk with Helen’s group was a little abbreviated today due to some clashing appointments later in the day. We did just about two miles, one there and one back so, from an exercise point of view,…

Decision time. There are three routes across the mountains between the west coast of New Zealand and the central/eastern country. We did the southernmost one of them, the Haast Pass, on our way down to Te Anau and Milford Sound.…

As forecast, Friday and Saturday proved unsettled, not to say very wet indeed. Rain stopped play. Saturday was actually acceptable so we went investigating the market at Denia. We needed something for dinner on Sunday and we lashed out on…

Having arrived yesterday, we’re in Swakopmund for two nights so we have today to play. On our way in yesterday we sat through a video presentation at Desert Explorers Adventure Centre which offered various forms of locally based diversions including:…

Subtitle: Mixed Morning II. We arrived in Spain on 15th December and awoke on 16th to a colourful dawn and the news that two more units on our development had been broken into. Well, wha’d’ya know? Here we were waking…

Yesterday we drove up to Another Place, an art installation by Antony Gormly consisting of 100 life-size Antony Gormlys staring at what I can only describe as a less than scintillating coastal view, Crosby Beach really being on a slightly…