El Perro Negro

Yes it’s true. We had a good day’s skiing yesterday in the Sierra Nevada with our dogs, Bruno (leonberger) and Khumbu (siberian husky).

We parked at the Hoya de la Mora above the ski town of Pradollano and made the 45 minute traverse on a good road and track towards the middle ski station area called, [...]

A nice collection of images of the town and countryside shot and produced by my friend, Pepe (Badaje). He has an interesting website at http://badaje.wordpress.com with more images, videos and comment about the town of Lanjaron. You need to speak or understand some spanish though!
Imagenes de Lanjaronby pepebadaje

This video shows the recently erected Museum of Water in Lanjaron. You can visit this by going to the east end of town (direction orgiva) and it is on the left before the bridge over the Rio Lanjaron.

Eh? Hmmmm!

Museo del aguaby pepebadaje

The invasive mosquito Aedes Albopictus was detected for the first time in Spain, in Sant Cugat del Vallès, a city in the north-east of the country, during August 2004. A male and one larva were collected in the backyard of a house and in a tree hole, respectively. Dense populations of adults and larvae were [...]

An acequia is a community operated waterway and most were established more than 200 years ago. The Arabs brought the technology to Spain during their occupation.

The acequia is how we irrigate our land and is a source of great entertainment for our dogs. Our water comes from the snows in the Sierra Nevada and is [...]

Went on a half day birdwatch trip with birdwatchalpujarras.com run by Ian and Steve. They are a fairly new company that have set up their birdwatching tours base in our spa town of Lanjaron.

We met at 10am outside a bar in Lanjaron, there were 9 of us in total in 2 4×4 vehicles. We drove [...]

Now here are a few photos of Khumbu when he was allowed to run free. It wasn’t until we put the photos on the computer that we could see the crazy facial expressions from Khumbu. They will make you laugh.

This is not a daft one but a nice one of Khumbu and Bruno together

These are [...]

Sadly my first dog, Rocky, died on Friday 22nd May 2009 after losing a battle with the horrible disease, Leishmaniasis. He was a great dog and faithful companion.

I remember coming out to Spain in 2001. My pickup truck was filled with all my worldly possessions, so Rocky had to sit in the passenger seat all [...]

39 years on and the song “Working Class Hero” still has meaning, possibly even more so these days. Written by legend John Lennon and made a hit by Marianne Faithfull in 1979 it is a take on the class split of the 1940s and 1950s, and of the 1960s in which John Lennon was famous.

The [...]