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.

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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.

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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.

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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 laugh

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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?

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dunno confused

I did say I'm not a good photographer.
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I love the huge head in the street.

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. laugh
Lou, the bucket is forgotten believe me uh oh

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 laugh
...been watching the CS opera tonight, and think I steped into the corner saying "back to jail, and stay over two rounds"...
-the lack of humor out there is scary!
...so I do like youre gastropod, and lurk out of sight.innocent

-best wishes with future debates, I look forward to sit in the back... watching....grin
Viking, hon, I ain't getting debates sigh

I'm mainly getting ignored.

I'm very good at being boring dunno playing to my strengths here.
Invading gastropods.. now there's a thought. When I was young... my mother was an avid gardener ( still is) and she would like us to remove the gastropods ...but as most children do... we found a use for them. We had jars... my brother and I .. we would collect them in the jars and race them. We had oodles of fun... until one day our mother called us in for lunch. We didn't want our racing snails to escape while we had lunch, so we put the lids on the jars and went for lunch.

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. laugh
Snails are just posh slugs anyway, they deserve everything they get!
Ooooh - so I'm gonna be slimed because of you - curses!

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 rolling on the floor laughing
B - posh, hmm - but the whole edible thing, does anyone eat slugs? yet people chomp up snails with relish. Or at least with garlic sauce. confused
Abagail, always the hope they will pick themselves up, look around and say hey, this is better than the other place laugh

B, so not going to try it barf

Night all wave
Nice blog. Thanks. It was interesting. conversing
Biffffffff! applause

Can’t view any of your pics and I dunno why.... blues moping


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.....

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....but the steps...uhoh, not that delightful scold mumbling

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Mimi...no pain..no gain grin
Molly

Santorini was in my bucket list, always had been until Sept 2017 grin
Those pics look like you have been to Santorini, so you killed 2 birds with the one stone laugh
thumbs up rolling on the floor laughing

Molly, maybe this one can pass off as Santorini with its bougainvillea! laugh

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Meanwhile here in Spain, after months of anti-tourism campaigns tourist numbers are dropping, El Mundo, the country’s second-largest paper brands English & German tourists as traitors wow doh

Could that not be more down to a fantastic summer in both the UK and Ireland rather than politics?

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 cool
Different places always are en vogue at different times

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.
Molly, thumbs up that'll also be why Trump cancelled his Ireland visit professor found somewhere cheaper hmmm
John, ta and hello! There's a nice little trend towards photo blogs, hope you too will push it along laugh

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 ... rolling on the floor laughing

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.
By the way if anyone cares I am up past my ankles in storm water so if I vanish in a burst of sparks or with a final despairing glub glub, you'll know why.

Hasn't got into the living area yet but hoo boy you should see the outside bits.
I am running out of dry towels to blockade the door ways help
Biff, can I answer that question privately? wink

And please please check your Skype, left you a message there since yesterday grin
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