Sunday 22-10-2006

From Elayne
We woke up to brilliant sunshine and cloudless blue skies this morning, and not a breath of wind.
We went on Skype last night and spoke to Steve, Debs, Ivan, Ollie and Nick. It was Debs birthday and the boys showed us the enormous box of chocolates that she had been given, as a present. It was really lovely to see all our family together, but a bit strange that we were in another country and not with them.
As it was such a lovely day, and being Sunday, we decided to go for a drive. We decided to go to Santa Maria de Nieve first off. It was a village on both sides of the main road, with not a lot to offer, except for a very strong smell of what we assumed to be goat, and a rather nice church. We walked up the road aways, poking about as we do, and taking photo’s, then headed back to the car. As we got back to the church a friendly Spanish gentleman indicated that he would take a photo of us both. Would you know it, the camera batteries had died on us, and we didn’t have any spares. So we had to regretfully decline his kind offer. He did wave to us and give us a thumbs up as we drove past him on our way out of the village.
We decided to follow the road to Velez Rubio and have a look round, and drove through some spectacular scenery, following a twisty winding road through the mountains. As time was getting on and we were conscious that the cats were in the caravan, we took a side road back to Taberno. We were glad that we did, because we eventually arrived back on the road that we pass every time we cross the rambla to go back to our site. So we now know what lies around the corner.
We landed back at Lentisco’s for a welcome drink, then back home for some lunch.
Just to spoil our day, the genny decided to refuse to start, so we changed the plugs on the other one and set it going, thank goodness we have got one in reserve.
We will have to send the poorly one down to Philip’s , as it seems to have given up the ghost.
We have had another beautiful sunset, and sat outside with a glass or three of wine, to watch the stars come out, till nearly nine o’clock.