Sketches of Spain - Andalusia 2002

Now and then we manage a holiday from the paradise island of Ibiza. It's nice to go, and nice to come back. With nothing better to do this morning other than prepare all our garden furniture for a good old coat of teak oil - ie scrubbing it down with a solution of salt and fairy liquid - I made a new slideshow whilst Jaki was painting the bedrooms.



It's our trip to the south of Spain in 2002 when we stayed in Denia, Granada, Cordoba, Toledo and Alarcon. The south's the bit with all the hot weather, strongest coffee, most unfathomable accent and an endless supply of olive trees.

Here's a taster from the slideshow (at the bottom of the blog) - it's the unreal landscape of Guadix, dotted with cave houses which have a facade and then burrow back into the soft rock beyond. Their temperature remains at a constant and comfortable 21 degrees celsius all day, all night and all year. We had a little tour of one thanks to an entrepreneurial little lad who only charged us a Euro to see his parents' house!