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King Juan Carlos in Ronda

The King of Spain, Juan Carlos was in Ronda today, and knowing the crowds and traffic would be terrible we decided to stay away, I mean the chance of actually getting a photo of the king would be next to nil with all the crowds.

So having made the decision to stay out of town we immediately forgot all about his visit, then realized this morning that we had to go into town to do some shopping and catch up with friends for a coffee.

Silly us, imagine making a conscious decision to avoid town today, and then forgetting all about it and ending up in town after all. Worst of all we didn’t see the king, but we did get caught up in the traffic.

When we finally left town to come home we got to the bottom end of town and came across several cops keeping an eye on traffic and no doubt the surrounding area, so we asked them if we’d be able to see the king on his way out of town.

Sure they said, just wait over there, ie not where they were, so we did, and were rewarded with the king’s car speeding past with a police escort, unfortunately the windows of the car were all dark, so after all of that we still didn’t see his highness. How disappointing.

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categories Uncategorized | Pixabella | datetime November 28, 2008 2:31 am | comments Comments (0)

Winter has arrived, brrr

Snow near Ronda

Snow near Ronda

Winter has definitely arrived in Southern Spain. The temperature has suddenly plunged, just above zero where we live, but a few kilometers up the road there is snow.

The snow is on the mountains around Ronda as you can see from this photo, which was taken at one of the supermarkets looking upto the Sierra de las Nieves, an appropriate name,the snow mountains.

The funny thing is that the mountains on the other side of Ronda are snow free, but still bitterly cold. Everyone we speak to says this is very unusual in these parts, snow in November hasn’t happened for a very long time.

So of course we’re expecting a cold winter, and I think we might have to go and buy more blankets to wrap around ourselves and also to put on the bed. Last winter we put a blanket on the mattress, and then the sheet over that, and it helped to stop cold air from under the bed coming up.

That’s actually a serious problem with modern mattresses that have springs inside them, they have no insulation to stop cold air, I think the next bed we buy will be a solid foam mattress with a thick mattress protector on it.

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categories Photo Favourites | Pixabella | datetime 2:18 am | comments Comments (0)