It's that time of the year...

end of year paperwork, always takes ages longer than you imagine, this time we went to 4 offices in 2 towns, 1 of the offices we had to go back to, to complete the final stage of the process, but we managed it all in 3 hours.

Spain, or the Spanish system, is a great lover of paperwork. Everything has to be in duplicate, an original has to be available for the man at the desk to see, quite often a photo is needed and the most important thing is to get the paperwork stamped! If you've got the stamp, then it's all ok.

After having done that, and we expected it to take more than one day, we decided to treat ourselves to lunch out on the beach at Salobreña. It's a restaurant we've taken family and friends to before and it never disappoints us. No, I'm not on commission - but it's called Chiringuito Casa Emilio.

We decided to share a house salad for starter, luckily we only ordered 1 as it was huge! A fruit salad on a bed of lettuce, consisting of apples, pears, grapes, melon, water melon, strawberries, peaches, oranges, kiwi, pomegranate, banana, papaya, passion fruit and star fruit.






This is the view we had of the beach - hardly anyone around.