A YEAR IN ANDALUCIA 5 YEARS ON!: A NEW YEAR

We scrub up well for sixty, don't you think!

Well, a belated Happy New Year to you all!

Apologies for the delay, but we have just experienced the worst weather conditions here in Andalusia since 1947. Having recently been smug about the fantastic weather we had throughout 2009, with virtually 9 months of clear blues skies, from the middle of December it changed dramatically.
We had the equivalent of an average year’s rainfall in one month, along with high winds and on the 23rd December we experienced a mini-tornado, which caused serious damage locally. We were fortunate in as much that we were not directly in its path, but even so we lost a number of roof tiles, many of which we found half way up our drive. Thank goodness the storm hit us in the early hours of the morning.
Anyway, we will tell you more about the storms in our next post.
Firstly, a quick review of 2009. It was the year when both Lin and I celebrated our 60th birthdays; Lin on the 11th October and mine on the 12th December.
Although we had intended for them both to be quiet affairs, to our surprise our friends Nigel & Ginny Cobb arranged a ‘Blazer & Bling’ Party for us at their wonderful house in Parchite, which was attended by the majority of our friends here. As you can see it turned out to be quite a night!