WE'RE BACK!

Outside the Cathedral in Malaga

To all of our dearest friends and blog followers.  

After an absence of nearly a year.…we’re back!!

Having lived in Spain for five years now we felt it inappropriate to continue under the heading of a ‘Spanish Adventure’ so as you can see we have changed the title to ‘A year in Andalucia - 5 years on’

We will continue to publish special events in our lives, but it will give you insight of how our lives have changed over the past five years.

Unfortunately, we did not had the easiest of starts to the New Year….

Sadly, our dear friend and neighbour Alvaro passed away on the 13th January! He contracted pancreatic cancer whilst he was living and with the intention of working in Luxembourg and although he returned to Malaga for treatment he did not recover. You may remember, Alvaro was the builder of our current house and since we moved here back in 2007, we had formed a very special friendship with him and his family.  He was only 45 years old.

He was always so generous with his time and was so supportive, especially during the early days when we were adapting to our new way of life.

He was always there during our numerous moments of need and we are going to miss him so much.

 Alvaro Jimenez Palacios

We went to his service at the crematorium in Malaga, which is set in the most beautiful location.  Everything happens very quickly here; the service was held in the evening of the actual day of his death and the cremation took place the following morning.  The family has a room at the crematorium for the whole day, which enables relatives and friends to come and go as they please and to spend as much time with the close family as they want.

Raquel, his partner for the past 4 years, thought it would be nice if his ashes were buried at his house here in Ronda, where he had been at his most happiest