By ricardo on October 28, 2009
Took this shot this morning from 20,000ft as our plane passed over Lanjaron and the Alpujarras. Conditions were very clear. The town can be seen, together with the water bottling plant and the wind turbines towards the Valle de Lecrin. The motorway from Granada to Motril can be seen running down the left hand side.
Posted in Lanjaron, Photos
By ricardo on September 27, 2009
Mulhacen summit, originally uploaded by spanishhighs.
EDM Challenge 2009. Spanish Highs Mountain Guides helped a group of 16 reached the summit raising funds for the Shooting Star Childrens Hospice.
Posted in Trips
By ricardo on July 31, 2009
Friday nights in Lanjaron, originally uploaded by spanishhighs.
Shot from my cortijo late July
Posted in Lanjaron, Photos
By ricardo on June 15, 2009
Tapa the bite sized mongrel running from the law
Khumbu viewing the world from a strange angle
Water cleaning the slobber from the leonberger’s jowls
Posted in Dogs, Photos | Tagged leonberger, siberian husky
By ricardo on June 12, 2009
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, [...]
Posted in Dogs, Photos, Trips | Tagged husky, leonberger, sierra nevada, ski, spain
By ricardo on June 5, 2009
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
Posted in Photos
By ricardo on June 5, 2009
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
Posted in Lanjaron | Tagged water
By ricardo on June 2, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Nature | Tagged mosquito
By ricardo on May 31, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Alpujarra life, Dogs
By ricardo on May 31, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Misc, Trips
Mountain and Leonberger loving recluse, now living in Spain's Sierra
Nevada mountains
