The summer is well and truly blistering hot in Spain, thank god for air conditioning and swimming pools. I am still unpacking and it is like Christmas because I have such a bad memory, opening boxes brings new surprises of things i had forgotten I had. The vegetable garden is looking rather past it, with beans dried in situ and only the tomatoes producing a fresh supply every couple of days. I actually forgot about the courgette bed and have this morning gone and bought some - oh silly me.
We have been juicing in the mornings or more correctly Alistair and Max. Yesterday they did coconuts - they juiced the coconut at the same time adding the coconut water which produced a beautiful silky juice. It was truly delicious. I think Alistair has written about it's benefits on his website www.best-health-juicing.com.
I haven't unpacked my plant seeds as yet but when I do I will get busy planting some herbs and pak choi, maybe some melon's as well. I will take some photographs of the veg beds as soon as this Wednesday is over and we get back to normal. We have a viewing that day and also a British TV crew doing some filming to see if they want to use us for a programme they will be filming in September. Hopefully we will have sold by then and will be looking for a smallholding or small farm back around Ludlow.
We had an enjoyable day last week driving around the Costa del Luz. Max packed his kite and we went along the coast from Tarifa. The sky was full of kites and the surfers where in their element. It is a surfer's paradise at Tarifa due to the Atlantic winds and people travel from all over the world to spend their holidays here. I guess a lot stay all year around more or less. Simone sunbathed and i took photographs. Simone and Max return to the UK tomorrow and I will be sad to see them go, but i really have so many things I need to get onto, that once everything is unpacked and the viewing over i will get my computer organised and start on my art work, and you never know - the long awaited new website.