Fuentes

Me and Antonio at a nice little park close to the University in Granada.

Wild

My garden has become so overgrown! It because of the lovely weather we've been having (but not at the moment) and also me being away loads of weekends, and then when not away working so that I can go away more weekends lol! Anyway, when it is nice and sunny, like in these pictures I don't think it looks too bad, and anyway, the cats love it. I'm sure it's much better for the wildlife too.

More Granada Pics

Tamara in the Green Bugatti

My favourite Tamara picture. I must see if I can find a print of it somewhere to buy for the house.

1940's

Here's another picture from Granada last week, it's a view from the Al Bayzin region looking over to the Alhambra.


Last night I worked at a 1940's themed dinner. It was in tiny little village called Witcham, which iisn't all that far from Ely. The place it took place was called 'The Hall' and when I arrived I assumed it was the village hall or something, but no, it was in fact the house of the people holding the party! It was very beautiful. There were 90 guests and 7 courses! Because it was meant to be 1940's based their waiters were all men, which is how it was in those days, and we had to be ultra polite to them, yes sir no sit three bags full sir, that sort of thing. There was a live band, with a very sophisticated singer. Was all very nice and to top it all there were Tamara de Lempika prints everywhere. She is my favourite artist and I even saw some of her stuff I'd never seen before. Apparently the hosts had them all specially made for the night. Ohh, to have all that money :)

We worked until gone 12, but didn't get fed with any of their 1940's food, but instead Lasagne. Tamara wouldn't have approved.

Granada

I went back to Granada last week to spend a few days with Antonio, I flew out on Thursday afternoon and came back on Tuesday afternoon, so it was a nice long weekend. On the Sunday he had to go back to Manresa as he was back to work on Monday, so we flew to Barcelona on Sunday afternoon. And it meant I had a nice day on Monday shopping in Barcelona :)

When I arrived at Granada airport, it was about 9.30 in the evening, it was so lovely and warm, with a perfectly blue sky with Venus blazing down in the west; it was a perfect moment :) I was collected from the airport by Antonio and his friend Vicente. Granada city centre is only about a 20 min journey from the airport, so we were soon in a typical spanish bar drinking cervezas and trying strange (for me) tapas. One thing that I found out talking to Vicente is that there is a gay town in Andalusia, Torremolinos. I can remember hearing about this place years ago as the destination of loads of brits on cheap package tours, but reading on Wikipedia it says that all the 'straight' clubs have now gone. It's a place I'm definately going to have to visit ;)

Anyways, I need to go and do some shopping, here's a picture I took of the Alhambra, looking nice and green in late spring.

Childhood

The weather has been so nice here the last few days that during my lunch hour I have gone on some bikerides and revisited places where I used to play when I was a child. This picture here is of one of my most favourite ones, as 10-year-olds we used to call it 'the muck-around place' lol!

We used to build dams across it, fish for sticklebacks and just generally mess around in it. It's actually the water that ultimately supplies Hobson's Conduit, that runs through the centre of Cambridge, and I think I can remember at school the taught us that this stream itself originates in Colchester, but I'm not 100% sure of this. Anyway, it used to be a fab place to play and me my brother and our friends spent hours and hours here during the summer holidays all the years ago.