HOME, SWEET HOME

I love any decoration coming from the sea, may be it has to do with growing up in an island.

I found the week, last week,where I didn·t have work, no family or frends to come, I love to have them around, but some time alone with ones partner is also important, so I went with my husband Armando for a week in our holiday apartment in Almuñecar.  It·s not far from Granada, so we go there often, but not wery often for a whole week. This was going to be all relax, morning-marked, beach, bicycling, cooking, walks in town late after-noons,  dinner at a restaurant, drink on one of the several terraces in town, for me the real holyday life.

Welcome to our light house entrance.

My husbands grandmother, from Almuñecar, became a widow very early in her life, in the time Franco was the governor of Spain, the widows where given the Tobacconist Licence, in Spain a state monopoly, called Estanco, for the way of living. She onely had one doughter, my mother in law, so my husband spent lots of time in Almuñecar as a little boy, he even went to school for 2 years there , and later as a young man, all his vacations, logically he has strong roots in the little town, and I learned to love it to.

Sea view.

We first had a holiday home in La Herradura, but it was quite lonely for our girls the week-ends in the winter time, we like to go not only in the summer, so we decided to settele down in Almuñecar, the perfect climate, the small town, I park my car in the garage when arriving, and don·t use it before I go home to Granada again, for me, depending on the car so many years,  is a big part of the holyday, and I bought a bicycle some years ago, and it·s a wonderful feeling, especially now, we got bicycle tracks, along the whole beach, I·m afraid I·m not a big biker, but from friends I know there are so many fine places to go up in the mountains in the Rio Verde valley, you can come up to over 1000 meters, spectacular views, over the Chirimoya , Avocado, Mango, Papaya, Nispero, plantations, the sub tropical climate gives all these delicious fruits the best growing conditions.

Here we spend the afternoons  playing Rummykub.

Another coner of the living room.

Small, but not less important kitchen.

Detail from the kitchen.

Lunches in the shadow.

Shells from the beach.

Main bed-room.

This is really our second home, not only a place by the beach.

FIND THE SHADOW

Shadowy deck chair space.

New lovely day, but it·s gonna be hot, so I·m around the house to get it a cool as possible during the day without using the air-condition whitch make my shoulder and hip ache, and my throat feel soar. Getting up in the morning I always open doors and windows for a while to get the fresh air inside, then i close all, and draw curtáis and blinds, so the house may be a little dark, but it feels comfortable when the sun shines so strong outside, and the house remains fresh this way.

 We have so many and huge windows, prepared with sun screen ( it is like a mirror and it·s going to throw the sun shine away)but anyway it makes the house warmer. I can understand why many old houses, specially in the country side, has very small even tiny windows, it's to keep the heat out. If you visit the Alpujarra , you can often see a thick curtain, in the typical Alpujarra pattern, in front of the entrance door, then they can open the main door and the patio door or a window to have airflow.

Outside I open the parasols and canopies, so the floor and the furniture is not going to be heated, I irrigate the wooden and the tiled floors.

To hot to sunbathe, but relaxing in the shadow.

Shadow in the morning.

Italian table and chairs from my show-room.

Even Rey keeps out of the heat.

The flower wall.

Be careful with the sun this week-end,

don·t dehydrate, drink a lot of water.

and have a good time.