Out and about.

It's something that only happens when you have someone staying, and this week Mat is down from Paris via a day working in Madrid. We have been out walking, (a bit hot for Pip and Monty really but they pottered from tree to tree waiting in the shade) we went to Trevelez yesterday and had lunch there too. Menu del dia in the square, watching the clouds getting bigger and bigger over the mountains towards the Sierra Nevada. There was a bit of rumbling thunder too, and as the temperature dropped we decided not to go any further on to other pueblos blanco. As it happened the clouds passed overhead and the sun came back out later on.

Down in Yator, at el bar Cubanito , Anna has started to do a Cuban menu at lunchtime on a Wednesday and if you buy 3 drinks you eat for free. A tubo (small beer) is €1.50, a glass of wine €1 so it's quite reasonable for lunch. Last Wednesday was her first day, so about 12 of us went to support her new venture. The food was tasty and just different enough - bowls of rice with ham, chicken and prawns in, bowls of salad with fresh pineapple and kiwi, sweet potatoes in pineapple sauce and fritters made of maize flour. Plus the usual basket of bread and olive oil. There was music too, mostly the pasodoble I think, a few people were dancing - photos available on request!!! We went down again this Wednesday with Mat, had a very filling lunch but not as different this week. Potato salad and lasagne, both things we all make ourselves.

Mat has a new camera and lenses that he has been trying out, taking photos of everything - flowers, clouds, sunsets, houses, trees, blue bees in flight....... Driving to Trevelez yesterday we stopped quite a few times so he could jump out to get a photo. It's a scenic drive, but not many pulling off places so I just stopped where I was - luckily not much traffic around.

If you think you can see snow on the mountain top to the right of Mat, you are seeing correctly. Berchules is in the background, it's 1320 metres above sea level. Trevelez is the highest village in Europe at 1510 metres above sea level.