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Although Casares village doesn't actually have a beach their territory stretches down to the coast so the large beach called "Playa Ancho" just before Sabinillas belongs to Casares and every year they organize a great San Juan Festival

This year the theme is Cuban!  The festival starts at 8pm and there will be free food, drinks and a Cuban band. There's always a great bonfire as well.

Lots of people come down to the beach (you gain entry at the Marina de Casares exit) and bring their friends and families and make a long evening of it, finishing up with the ritual midnight swim.

So Monday evening  ( 23rd June) at 8pm bring your towel and cossie and be prepared to be entertained!

The Estepona town hall organized a special show in March to promote new companies and businesses in the area. As I'd just started up a new company in November with my daughter, Emma, we received an invitation to participate. With only a week to prepare we raced around madly, and managed to put together info and a demo (small cabin built in insulated ply imported from Sweden) for our stand.

It was to be a weekend show, opening on Friday and continueing Saturday and Sunday. We had never been to the Palacio de Congresos in Avenida Andalucia before and were quite impressed with the large hall, cafeteria and reception area. We'd set up on the Thursday and Friday morning we got an early start so as to be ready for the first visitors. Well, the turnout was less than a dribble! We had been told there would be a mixture of Spanish and foreign visitors so we had prepared info in English and Spanish. I think we counted three English people the whole weekend!

However, the weekend was not wasted at all. We had a great time getting to know our neighbours! On one side there was Rosario from Cuevas de San Marcos, a buxom lady who ran a cafe and cake shop specializing in baking with natural ingredients.
On the other side was Andrés and his wife (and baby) form Benarrabá, a butcher with a factory/shop selling all those fabulous Spanish chorizos, blood sausage, butifara blanca, salamis and Jamón serrano. Last but not least, opposite our stand was young Juan from Crestellina Quesos, on the Manilva - Gaucin road, with his goat's cheese and yoghurts. He was so enterprising, explaining in detail how he concentrated on producing a product as natural as possible by grazing his goats on land totally free from contamination.
We were plied with delicious biscuits, cakes, ham, differing samples of sausage, creamy goats cheese and fruity yoghuts with enthusiastic explanations of ingredients continuously through the three days we were together.
Juan cooked a paella for all of us on Sunday for lunch in a portable electric pan he bought especially for the occaision!
I went home on Sunday evening feeling very contented, we hadn't had a great commercial breakthrough but we'd really enjoyed the weekend and we'd made new friends with people we would never have even met otherwise.

If you feel like a nice drive sometime why don't you go and visit - 

Juan - Crestellina Quesos  Ctra. Manilva - Gaucin, km 13.5  ( Casares)  952 89 51 67

A bit further afield - Andrés Ramos  Fabrica Artesanal de Embutidos y Jamones
                                   C/ Mesón 5, Benarrabá (Gaucin road to Ronda)  952 15 00 47

On the way to Cordoba - Rosario - Panaderia y Cafeteria - C/ Ramón y Cajal 10, Cuevas de San Marcos   952 72 81 54

And tell em Pam sent ya!


 
 

Transparent voiles featuring stripes of varying widths are arriving in a large range of colours.

Gone are the old nets, you can transform your livingroom or bedroom dramatically with a new set of voiles.
On a single track or pole on their own or a double if you need to draw your curtains of an evening, co-ordinate
soft creams and golds or beiges or go really exotic with silver or pistacio.