I was reminded recently by a very good friend of mine that it had been a while since I posted on the blog and its certainly not keeping up with my aim for one a day… I will try and make up for that now, its not as if my life has been boring since my last post, there always seems to be something going on… (more…)

On saturday we set off for a sleeply little village a few hours drive from home, tucked away in the Costa Tropic. After setting off on saturday morning we arrived in the village of Pampaniera and started looking for the guide book that was supposed to be guiding us through the country. We’d forgotten it. Plan b: Ask the hostel owners for a couple of local walks, they showed us some leaflets and we managed to workout what we thought was the route. The first part of the route involved following the route backwards…. have you ever tried to follow directions backwards? It just doesn’t work! (more…)

It all started with a suprise visit from our local Spanish farmer who has his finca on the opposite side of the road from our house. While I should have been busy working on Friday, we were summoned by one of our neigbours to help pick some avocados. We had been given warning of this but we were just expecting to be filling a couple of plastic bags with fruit, it was not to be that easy though… (more…)

Well, in 24 hours I didn’t get very far with the design… I’m not the most creative person so I wasn’t honestly expecting much to happen. If anyones got any ideas for a design, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. (more…)