Past my bedtime...
Friday, September 9, 2011 @ 3:26 AM
Just back from 3 hours of tango in Motril! The moon is up, the campo looks divine in the silvery light and it is still very warm - at 1am! Steve has gallantly driven to Malaga to collect a friend and her son coming home from the UK, then he is rushing up a few mountains over the next 3 days with a couple of other men. Spanish is the only common language, which is good and they will sleep out on the hillsides. I have opted out of this one with various feeble excuses! In fact I am in the middle of putting emulsion on the granero walls inside and regard this as more important than mountaineering at the moment - well, that's a less feeble excuse and I'm sticking to it!
We went to Juviles last Sunday for a motorbike meet and were amazed at the numbers! About 300 bikes filled the plaza and nearby streets, coming from Almeria and Granada as well as more local places. I think we were the only British bikers there but as usual everyone was exceedingly friendly . We went round the local secadero ham factory, ate home-made migas (breadcrumbs/cous-cous) and morcilla sausages and tried hard to win something on the raffle but failed miserably, as usual. All in aid of the local church, 16th century and in the Mudejar style and all good fun. We met a man named Romulo (Romulus) whose son, of course, is Remus...
Well, off to bed. Perhaps a quick look at the BBC News first...areas of interest coming up have to include the Rugby World Cup which starts tomorrow (Eng v Argentina on Sat morning), tennis in the USA, more on Libya and, of course, the economic situation. Tucked away here we manage to ignore much of the world's horrors but it is important to stay aware.
