First week over

Well, I'm slowly getting in the flow of things. Getting used to the heat, for example. Yesterday I had a flash. I'm actually living and buying my groceries and sleeping and cooking and walking around in Spain! It's been more than a month now and I finally feel like I can breathe a bit.

Here's what I did this week:

Walked through the Albaicín a lot.

Carmen de las Estrellas

Went to Los Veranos del Corral and saw three excellent dancers:

David Coria

Raimundo Benítez

Agustín Barajas

And I went horseriding! I took the bus down by the river Genil that went to Dílar, a village at the foot of Sierra Nevada national park. There, a very friendly Fernando and Silke take care of the horses in Los Alayos.

Faraón, who was so gracious to carry me.

 We went for 2-hour rides in the countryside, which was absolutely gorgeous. We passed olive and almond trees, garden with fresh corn, tomatoes and figs. We touched the base of the national park, where the forest begins. We went down to the river Dílar. We never went faster than at walking pace, but I did enjoy myself immensely.

Dílar landscape

On Wednesday we killed an amazing platter of cheese and pâté with Annemarie and friends. She's from Holland and I met her in Sanlúcar. She had spent a month in Spain and it was her last night in Granada! Patrick took us to a place where they have a selection of 45 cheeses from Spain, France and Italy. I was in heaven. Julie, I will need to take you there!

The platter was gone in 10 minutes flat (sorry for the bad lighting)

Of course we couldn't go without wine.

Annemarie 

Michelle

Dag

Patrick

Yours truly!

We could say the week was a success. :)