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2018.01.20 Variety of colours

It’s surprising how colorful January is in such a mild climate as the south of Spain. In cities, public parks are filled with flowers. Which takes quite some maintenance. Many cities have botanic gardens. The one in Valencia is the most beautiful we have visited so far in Spain. But even Almuñécar has a botanic … Read more

2018.01.19 Buenos dias

The village in the Netherlands where we used to live, really is a village. When you walk around everybody says ‘hello’ or ‘good morning’. That’s the upside. The downside is that people keep a close watch on each other. On the seaside here in Spain, where we now live, nobody says anything if you’re not … Read more

2018.01.18 Hammering contest

The economy in Spain is recovering. Not as fast as the politicians would like, but the signs are there. For instance, every city or village we visited is alive with building activities. Already years ago we discovered that in Spain there is a specific construction culture. All day, construction workers carry around a drill as … Read more

2018.01.16 Boulevards & Beaches

Yesterday the picture showed a fine example of the lengthy walking boulevards there are to be found in many Spanish coastal cities and villages. Friends of us told us that the specific boulevard on yesterday’s picture takes a 4-hour hike, one way! Walking boulevards do not discriminate. Spanish people and those from other countries, handicapped … Read more

2018.01.15 An interpretation of time

Again the weather app was wrong with its prediction, but this time we didn’t mind at all. It should have been 14°, but 20° has been the highest we noticed on the car thermometer. We have discovered a minor disadvantage of staying over here. The Spaniards lunch late and lunch is the main meal of … Read more

2018.01.14 Feeling at home

The weather app predicted rain in the late afternoon, so we didn’t take our raincoat or rain hat with us when we went down for a tea at the boulevard. It turned out that the weather app over here is just as accurate as it is in the Netherlands:while finishing our first cup it started … Read more

2018.01.12 Designed for donkeys

Much of the former rather rough and green Spanish coast has by now turned into tourist accommodations. Of the old inner-cities, some have been preserved. This is a picture taken in Almuñecar. A city on the Costa Tropical. As in most pictures, the secret is what is not to be seen here. We had to … Read more