Escaping the Ice and Snow
While we were in Spain for a week in late November we were asked if we would House Sit a beautiful Spanish style house for six weeks, starting early February, so after we spent about 1 second considering the offer, we accepted and have now decamped to our temporary abode in Velez Malaga, about 25 miles West of Malaga town.
On our arrival we were greeted with cloudy skies and rain, however, we were not worried as we expected the sun to break through at any moment “Wrong”. During our first three weeks here we have only had a total of three days where it did not rain, still, at least the rain is warm and we live in hope that the weather will improve during the remaining three weeks.
Selina and India visited us for a few days break and we took the opportunity to visit the Caves at Nerja, what a brilliant day out that proved to be, the actual caves were spectacular and kept us all enthralled during our underground walk. After a bite to eat, we decided to take to the “mountain roads” for our trip home. Well …. We certainly found some of the most difficult and narrow roads in that area, but the views were worth it, we even managed to find a couple of avocado pears for India to pick, and then we found some prickly pears which India insisted on calling “Spiky Plums” and insisted that she wanted two or three to take home. (I am still pulling out the tiny spikes from my hands two days later).
The following day we decided that, as Gibraltar was only 100 miles away, we had to go and see the “Rock” and visit the famous monkeys that live there. Altogether it was a great day out and we even managed to persuade one monkey to sit on Selina’s shoulders, the problem was, we could not persuade it to get off (see picture).
We will update the blog when we get back to Xilion Rose on the 17th March and get her ready for the “off” during the fist week of April.
Malcolm and Annie
The Caves at Nerja
One friendly monkey