More Paella!

We don't only eat paella! But we had one of our in-house versions the other evening with Mark, Steph and family up on the top roof terrace.

Everyone enjoyed the mixed seafood and meat paella together with home made Sangria a good time was had by all.......

Moors and Christians

We attended the Moors and Christians processions in the neighbouring village of Benicolet this week. We have Mark and Steph, together with their sons James and Sam from Norfolk staying with us and thought it would be a good opportunity to see some of the local celebrations.

The amazing thing about this part of Spain, which we constantly refer to as “Real Spain” is that these village events and many others like them are not set up for tourists to see – these are just what go on as part of remembering the past and tradition, this is real life in real Spain – you have to experience it to feel the “el ambiente”, the atmosphere, for yourself. In the meantime some photos should give a taster…..

Bull Run

One of the Spanish traditional events is to run bulls through village streets with willing human participants running in front (as fast as possible!) to give the bulls something to chase….








We sat safely on the sidelines to watch the madness take place! :-)