Life in Las Alpujarras - August 2007

What an incredible month August has been at Casa Escocia. It has been an active time with lots of mountain biking and more fiestas!

It was nice to meet Mary, Mike & Toby our first guests of the month. A friendly family with an interesting variety of career choices!! Hope the new challenge is going well Mary and glad you were able to have a relaxing time at Casa Escocia.

Next out to the Mountain B&B were the Tyrers. They made great use of their week to get out and about the area, cramming in a lot of activities in a short space of time. Wadge was keen to get out on the mountain bikes and joined me on a couple of high altitude route finding missions. These were hard work but great fun. Horse riding was next on the agenda for the Tyrers and Wadge and Carola thoroughly enjoyed a day out in the high Alpujarras with our local stables. Half way through this week they were joined by the Duffys and despite Bob's best efforts the house next door is still standing!!

Everyone enjoyed the Nechite Fiesta and all the kids loved the latest foam party to hit Las Alpujarras. Our high living neighbour Ian joined myself and Bob for some more mountain biking and a great loop from Mecina Bombaron took us over some high tracks before a few thousand feet of downhill brought us back to Casa Escocia. Both Ian and Bob are more used to bikes with engines and despite Bob insisting he wouldn't have agreed to go out had he known about the uphill I know secretly he loved the 14km uphill start!!

Meena, Mehul & Zeeta were our next guests and they had a great time driving around the area and enjoying the cooler temperatures of the mountains. It was great to meet you and you know where we are now if it gets too hot down on the coast!

Virendra, Rita, Rahul and Harsh had a brief stop at Casa Escocia on their tour of the south of Spain. Another family who made use of the nearby stables to sample some adventure in Las Alpujarras.

On the business front, Cliff Lowther and his company RoXcool have joined forces with Sunshine Breaks to offer lots more adventure options for anyone coming out to Granada. Rob & Cliff were able to get out the mountain bikes and make plans for a huge variety of activities in the Granada region ... watch this space!!

Mary's menu in August included dishes with locally grown tomatoes, figs, nectarines and onions which are all in season at the moment. Dish of the month as voted by those that devoured it was Marys fig and lemon pie!

All in all a great month ... hasta luego.

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