Meanwhile here in Spain
Yesterday I was in Orgiva, a small town in the Alpujarras and did have my camera. I'm not a good photographer, though.Pics - Orgiva is hot enough to shade its main street - I do enjoy the effect when towns do.
This particular bit of road is watched over by this gent. I have no idea who he is. I did walk round him looking for a plaque.
The reason I was in Orgiva was to put my 9-year-old UK car through the first and vital stage of becoming a 9-year-old Spanish car - the ITV test. Since its last MOT in the UK it has driven to and around Spain, been used as a mini truck for building supplies, lived in the street and been bumped and scraped and peed on by dogs and crapped on by birds and not had a single service. It passed. Damn I love this car.
The ITV station is not in Orgiva, but nearby in the mountains. I don't know what other advantages the site may have but the view is good while you wait your turn
and now for something completely different. I live in a town, without a garden, and the townhouse has 10 foot walls. I have some plants in my atrium, at least 40 yards from the nearest garden, and they have been there a couple of months. These chives have died and I think this is the culprit but - how the hell did he get here?
I did say I'm not a good photographer.
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ITV=MOT? Same thing? We don't do those locally, but the concept fascinates me.
Thanks for sharing your photos. I am not sure where your gastropod friend came from...but I think he will have friends lurking.
I shall be super-rich by next year and will have the very fanciest mist money can buy. Or - faint possibility - I won't and will once again melt into a puddle for all of August
-the lack of humor out there is scary!
...so I do like youre gastropod, and lurk out of sight.
-best wishes with future debates, I look forward to sit in the back... watching....
I'm mainly getting ignored.
I'm very good at being boring playing to my strengths here.
It was a hot day and we stayed inside for an hour or so... can you imagine our horror as children when we had fried the snails in the jar. Suffice to say, we didn't race snails for some time after that. We were somewhat traumatised by our behaviour.
So if they invade... it might be in retribution for what we did to their distant relatives in Australia.
I did wonder if among all the many hundreds I have thrown over fences in the ritual exchange of snails in Scotland, there mightn't have been one that hid in my luggage
B, so not going to try it
Night all
Can’t view any of your pics and I dunno why....
We were in Nerja for 3 days, Art and I decided to explore Frigiliana after Molly’s strong recommendation.
Spent the whole morning and afternoon there. It was an absolutely delight.....
....but the steps...uhoh, not that delightful
Santorini was in my bucket list, always had been until Sept 2017
Molly, maybe this one can pass off as Santorini with its bougainvillea!
Lots of people I know that would normally have travelled south, just chose to stay home this year and enjoy the summer here
Sometimes there is just a simple answer to things
It also depends on where airlines decide to fly to. If a new route opens to, eg. Egypt, and it is inexpensive to holiday there, people will go.
I really don't think it has much to do with anti-tourism demonstrations.
Mimi, can you usually see Tokyo's and Imp's? We use the same imgur site. So you found, as did I, that's Molly's recommendations carry a fair amount of travelling at a 45 degree angle, hmmmm, there's a pattern developing here ...
Z, the tourist authorities and the locals at war, it's Cornwall all over again. Large sign on the border, welcome grockles, please leave your money in this bucket and go home, thank you.
Molly I think more the strong euro, not a bargain holiday - NOW prices dropping all over the place, but for the most part too late.
Hasn't got into the living area yet but hoo boy you should see the outside bits.
And please please check your Skype, left you a message there since yesterday