Middle-aged flash packers

We’ve become rather fond of Alcatraz, so much so that we booked to stay another two nights. I’ve become used to being a prisoner, as I can’t seem to manage to open the front door nor the bars on the patio door that provide freedom onto the back terrace. I have to wait for my…

In our defence, the whole point of a road trip is you can make it up as you go along – if your plans no longer make sense, rather than stick rigidly to them, you can be flexible and do something else instead. Now I know this probably isn’t the attitude that the great explorers…

As we are on the edge of the Sierra Nevada, it made sense to do some walking to experience this area. Our first hike took us to the Cumbres Verdes (the green summits) region which is just a 15 minute drive from our house. We parked at the Collado Sevilla car park after parking somewhere…

It was a dull, cloudy day as we hit the road again. On the way to our new abode near Granada, we stopped to visit the hilltop town of Ronda with its famous plunging Puento Nuevo bridge that connects the gorge separating the town. I don’t know if it was sightseeing fatigue or just the…

Before I get on to the subject of beaches, we were rudely awakened yesterday morning by the sound of something falling and then loud dripping. We are familiar with such sounds as in our own home over the years, various members of the family have left taps running with sink plugs in, forgotten about baths…

While resting on the extremely comfortable sofa in our new abode, I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. Assuming it was a spider, I put my feet up on the couch and hoped the spider would scuttle away. Imagine my horror when the most enormous cockroach appeared on the arm of…